Earthly Quotes

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.