Top 709 Earthly Quotes & Sayings

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.

You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.

The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

I feel most assuredly that our Father in heaven is far more interested in a soul-one of his children-than it is possible for an earthly father to be in one of his children. His love for us is greater than can be the love of an earthly parent for his offspring.

Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.

The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.

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

Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings

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

All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.

Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.

I have seen the face of Jesus, Tell me not of aught beside, I have heard the voice of Jesus, All my soul is satisfied. All around is earthly splendour Earthly scenes lie fair and bright. But mine eyes no longer see them, For the glory of that light. Light that knows no cloud, no waning, Light wherein I see His face, All His love’s uncounted treasures, All the riches of His grace.

A felon's cell-- The fittest earthly type of hell!

She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.

If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.

The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom.

Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.

An angel; or, if not, An earthly paragon.

In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all images, the soul is fed in contemplation by the essences of the highest realm, knowing the permanent noumena of things. Then, satiated with this knowing, it descends again to the earthly realm. And precisely at the boundary between the two worlds, the soul’s spiritual knowledge assumes the shapes of symbolic imagery: and it is these images that make permanent the work of art. Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life.

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

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

Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.

One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.

I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.'

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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

Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding

A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

Earthly possessions are not what you came here to gather. Do not worry about your earthly possessions. Place your attention on your heavenly goal - the evolution of your soul - and you will find peace even while on earth.

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we look at other people. Are we inclined to judge an eternal soul by the appearance of an earthly body? Do we see the beautiful soul of a brother or sister or do we only see that person's earthly tabernacle? Bodies can be distorted by handicap, twisted by injury or worn by age. But if we can learn to see the inner man and woman, we will be seeing as God sees and loving as He loves.

God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense.

God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

I have been monitoring your earthly broadcasts for many years.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed bu increased.

What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go of attachments to this worldly life and this earthly body and identifies with the permanence or God-consciousness that Jesus represented, will never die.

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.

God is not outside this earthly case of ours.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.