374 Quotes About Paradise

It’s time to make your stand. It’s you against the world. It’s you contra mundum. This world is hell, but good, rational people of strong will can convert it into paradise.

If we all did what we should, we would wake to find ourselves in paradise.

Poetry is paradise.

Praying is the heavenly paradise.

Praying is the only paradise.

The word for paradise is actually „garden“ or jannah in Arabic. Paradise is not just something that comes after this earthly life. The Qur‘an says, The Garden will be brought near to all those who are in a state of Godconsciousness (Surah ash-Shu‘ara 26:90). To all those who deepen in their remembrance, deepen in presence, The Garden will be brought near. (p. 101)

Paradise lies in praying.

Every paradise is made possible by blindness.

It is idle to say there is no such garden. Everyone recognises the same nostalgia... Paradise is neither a moment nor a place; it is a condition. So when the lover calls to his or her beloved to come into the garden, it is, in the final implication, a summons to overcome to human condition.