Heaven Quote by Alda Merini Download Open image “I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.” — Alda Merini ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Heaven Obsession Paradise
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap? — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to… — Andrew Rayner Copy Share Image
I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini Copy Share Image
In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and… — Alda Merini Copy Share Image
We are hungry for tenderness, in a world where everything abounds we are poor of this feeling which is like a caress for our… — Alda Merini Copy Share Image
As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for laughs, I don’t know.… — Alda Merini Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell. — David Platt Copy Share Image
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home? — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
By the time you have no difficulties in your life, you have achieved Heaven. — Charles Brown Copy Share Image
I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age, and spend them in Thy service, 0 my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Oh, let not these be mere words! Whom have I in heaven but Thee and there is none upon earth… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share
