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Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise." (reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim)

Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other.

You cannot love God and tolerate evil. Psalm 97:10.

With prayer, life is a paradise.

You can spend your whole life traveling around the world searching for the Garden of Eden, or you can create it in your backyard.

You breathe into my words & animate them with life. I'd fall from heaven a trillion times over to die in the softness of your paradise.

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular!

You never plant trees whose leaves are merely locks when your mind becomes a forbidden paradise of independent thought.

Your voice, through the beelike hum, was remote and anxious. It kept sliding into the distance and vanishing. I spoke to you with tightly shut eyes, and felt like crying. My love for you was the throbbing, welling warmth of tears. That is exactly how I imagined paradise: silence and tears, and the warm silk of your knees. This you could not comprehend.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads In Paradise we should all be by now! But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Dogs are our link to paradise.

Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! - holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!

How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read." This made them laugh because they knew I meant it honest, not show-off. Then they told me their favorites, and we sat quiet.

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

I do know I'm going to heaven. I have read all of the Scriptures and the passages that define paradise and things like that. To me, what matters is I'm going to be with Jesus and I'm going to be in his presence. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. At that point, you know some to judgment, some to salvation.

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.