Earthly Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

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

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

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.

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

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

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?

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

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

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

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

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

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

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