Earthly Quotes

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.

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

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

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

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

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.

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