Top 1200 Earthly Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

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

Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

It is no small advantage to the holy life, to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their hearts with him over-night, that they may find them with Him in the morning. "When I awake, I am still with thee," saith holy David. Before earthly things break in upon us, and we receive impressions from abroad, it is good to season the heart with thoughts of God, and to consecrate the early and virgin operations of the mind.

Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single.

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

I look forward to the time when the churches come to celebrate and honour the work of animal protection as an imperative arising from their belief in the Creator and in the gospel of the crucified. After all, similarly remarkable things have happened, for example, the growing consensus among churches that the environment should be cared for and protected as a Christian duty--an astonishing turnaround when one considers the prevailing dualism in previous centuries, which expressly discouraged concern for "earthly" matters as distinct from "spiritual" ones.

Women come to me and would never tell a male guru the things that they tell me. to me and would never besiege the male guru with some of the things that I hear. And that is because mother is mother and that is the phenomenal thing, it's the most irreplaceable thing in the world because whether we're an earthly mother or a spiritual mother, a divine mother, and everyone is divine by the way, we all have the power of divinity, the power of full consciousness, whether we are awakened to the potential of it all is a different matter.

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.

The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.

Jesus has given you the power to live as He lived, which is something no earthly teacher can do.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.

Even the Savior of the world, the Only Begotten Son of God, was obliged to come to earth and to take upon himself an earthly tabernacle. He experienced joy and sorrow, happiness and grief, lasting satisfaction and frequent disappointments. As Paul has written, "Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him."

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.

Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot serve God and mammon' (Mt. 6:24); cling to God alone, put your trust in Him alone; for the Devil, by inciting us to duplicity, seeks himself to gain possession of our heart, which is single and indivisible.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

I'm going to love you so good and so long you're gonna be convinced no earthly thing could have brought us together

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

Spirtual does not mean divorced from the physical, earthly realm. The Earth is one of the most divine forms in all creation.

Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

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

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.

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

PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy, fool...ish or wise must finally come to an end. It is from this sobering reality that the end of executive rule has finally come for Robert Mugabe who has had his better days after a quarter of a century in power.

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

Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

Islam understands its earthly mission to extend the law of Allah over the world by force.

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

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

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

Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who himself for his pride was cast down from heaven into the dominions of the air, wishes by every means to attach men to earthly,- sensual, transitory things, and, in order to attain this end, he employs the most powerful, most prodigious means.