Earthly Quotes
445 quotes by 367 authors
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through…
— Sai Baba
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
— Irving Babbitt
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He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to…
— Robert Barclay
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising…
— Gary Bauer
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The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build…
— Alvar Aalto
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
— Donald Cargill
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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…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve…
— J. B. Stoner
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The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will…
— Julian Huxley
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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot…
— Mark the Evangelist
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Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.
— Walter Hilton
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After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it's assuring to come home to a place you know. God can…
— Max Lucado
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How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says to Himself: If…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish…
— Mark Twain
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Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
— Adolf Hitler
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With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
— Franklin Pierce
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
— Ezra Pound
Who Wrote These Earthly Quotes
367 authors contributed a total of 445 Earthly Quotes, led by these top contributors: