When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Lord, let us not hold tight to those earthly things we long for lest You be torn from our grasp.” — Tamara Leigh Copy Share Image
Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
“The great stream of time and earthly things will sweep on just the same in spite of us.” — William Sumner Copy Share Image
“... "if you restrict earthly things, you set up your thoughts free for the spiritual.” — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“In many ways, aging well is about learning to let go of earthly things and clinging to God alone” — Missy Buchanan Copy Share Image
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things. — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
“By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“When the Eternal bows the skies To visit earthly things, With scorn divine he turns his eyes From towers of haughty kings.… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
True happiness does not consist in the pleasures of this world, or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I listen to our first album now, I can hear the purity of the oneness of leaving all earthly things aside… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
God wants us to prosper. Our need, however, is to evaluate things as they should be evaluated - to esteem earthly things… — Kenneth E. Hagin Copy Share Image
“Father of Mercies, teach me to hold all earthly things lightly and to fix my mind on a realm where Your grace… — Guideposts Copy Share Image
Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Until Sir Isaac Newton wrote down the universal law of gravitation, nobody had any reason to presume that the laws of physics… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Lottie was so delighted that she quite forgot her first shocked impression of the attic. In fact, when she was lifted down… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“The unbiblical idea of "spirituality" is that the truly "spiritual" man is the person who is sort of "non-physical," who doesn't get… — David Chilton Copy Share Image
“These words of Faber find sympathetic response in every heart; yet much as we may deplore the lack of stability in all… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“Human language, for us moderns, has swung in on itself, turning its back on the beings around us. Language is a human… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“Men sometimes come and question me How many years my age may be, Seeing my temples silver now And flecks of snow… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no… — Arthur Davison Ficke Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness of death is therefore a gift of God which assists man in finding his heart, which is the beginning of the… — Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Copy Share Image
“The world includes the mass of humanity that is alienated from God and therefore hostile to the cause of Christ. It involves… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
“When the light of God's truth begins to find its way through the mists of illusion and self-deception with which we have… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a good example of that modern intelligence which, if it destroys anything, destroys itself. Evolution is either an innocent scientific… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
WHY DO WE WANT TO FORSAKE GOD TO SEEK AFTER EARTHLY THINGS WHEN HE HAS PROMISE US THE BEST OF EARTHLY THING… — CORNELIUS IBIOLORUNDUN Copy Share Image
My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain… — Carlo Levi Copy Share Image
True happiness, oh young people, does not consist in the pleasures of this world, or in earthly things, but in peace of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
