1. If we listen carefully we will notice that what most people mean when they say "God helps those who help themselves" is "God helps those who are able to help themselves." It is a saying laced in self-serving arrogance.
2. The word 'paradise' occurs only in the NT, 3x (Lk 23:43; 2 Cor 12:4; Rev 2:7), though it is often transposed here by unsuspecting preachers and in common speech.