Earthly Quotes - page 11

It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide. (Ilona Andrews)
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. View quote
Jane Birkin
But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince. View quote
John Jewel
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions. View quote
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life. View quote
Leland Ryken
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. View quote
Channing Pollock
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a change of heart should be a matter of free choice. View quote
Mustafa Akyol
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. View quote
Rudolf Arnheim
Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail. View quote
Sheri L. Dew
One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams. View quote
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor. View quote
Dante Alighieri
All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death. View quote
J. C. Ryle
I'm afraid I do believe that all earthly love can die - since man is mortal, why not also his most human feature? - and for me pretensions such as love that dies was never love, etc. belong to schoolgirls' albums. View quote
Ida Friederike Görres
You have lost a child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the only earthly object of my affection. View quote
James Buchanan
An undivided heart, which worships God alone, and trusts Him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants. View quote
John Cunningham Geikie
I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
I ask you to pass through life at my side-to be my second self, and best earthly companion. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
As soon as he had acquired a true knowledge of God, he confessed that there is undoubtedly true felicity in the knowledge of God; it is attained by all who acquire that knowledge, and no earthly trouble can disturb it. View quote
Maimonides
Alexander Duff was convinced that "of all the systems of false religion ever fabricated by the perverse ingenuity of fallen men, Hinduism is surely the most stupendous” and that India was "the chief seat of Satan's earthly dominion.”. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
Fade, fade, each earthly joy; Jesus is mine! Break every earthly tie; Jesus is mine; Dark is the wilderness; Earth has no resting-place; Jesus alone can bless; Jesus is mine. (Horatius Bonar)
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At the Petrin telegraph station, religion broke out like an epidemic. For no earthly reason, all the telegraph operators on duty were sending out ecstatic messages to the whole world, a sort of new gospel saying that God is coming back down to earth to redeem it ... View quote
Karel Čapek
Anyone whose attention and love are really directed towards the reality outside the world recognizes at the same time that he is bound, both in public and private life, by the single and permanent obligation to remedy, according to his responsibilities and to the extent of his power, all the privations of soul and body which are liable to destroy or damage the earthly life of any human being whatsoever. View quote
Simone Weil
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher