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
“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
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
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
“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
“Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All… — Victor Hugo 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
“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
“There is a spiritual meaning of all human acts and earthly events. … It is the business of man to find the… — John A. Widtsoe Copy Share Image
“One doesn’t cling anxiously to life, but neither does one throw it lightly away. One is content with measured time and does… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed… — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which… — Galileo Galilei 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
“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
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
“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
“In a world of change and decay not even the man of faith can be completely happy. Instinctively he seeks the unchanging… — A W Tozer Copy Share Image
For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad,… — Jonathan Moyo Copy Share Image
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“I am an alien. i am not of this world, nor do I call it "home". My desires are not for earthly… — Derek M. Puma Copy Share Image
Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to His… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
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