Earthly Quotes

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?

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.

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

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.