Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly…

“When the Eternal bows the skies To visit earthly things, With scorn divine he turns his eyes From towers of haughty kings. He bids…

— Isaac Watts

“In many ways, aging well is about learning to let go of earthly things and clinging to God alone”

— Missy Buchanan

I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear…

— Ralph Venning

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

— Matthew McConaughey

The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to…

— Maximus the Confessor

What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed…

— Galileo Galilei

“In a world of change and decay not even the man of faith can be completely happy. Instinctively he seeks the unchanging and is…

— A W Tozer

“One doesn’t cling anxiously to life, but neither does one throw it lightly away. One is content with measured time and does not attribute…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Human language, for us moderns, has swung in on itself, turning its back on the beings around us. Language is a human property, suitable…

— David Abram

To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever…

— Carlo Levi

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are…

— Lillian Smith

“Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly things…

— Victor Hugo

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.…

— Lysa TerKeurst

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“The world includes the mass of humanity that is alienated from God and therefore hostile to the cause of Christ. It involves worldly affairs,…

— Mark Hitchcock