Best Earthly Quotes
445 Earthly quotes by 354 unique authors
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That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour…
— Joseph Hall
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It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
— C.S. Lewis
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When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor,…
— Andrew Jackson
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own…
— John Dryden
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A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with…
— Johannes Kepler
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If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our…
— Hosea Ballou
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That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!
— Robert Pollok
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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
— William Gurnall
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If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent…
— Martin Luther
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A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
— B. B. Warfield
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We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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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…
— Thomas Case
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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of…
— Catharine Beecher
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With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this…
— Pier Giorgio Frassati
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The score of Pelleas and Melisande by Debussy, heralds that which will lift man from the earthly to the celestial, from the mortal to the…
— Corinne Heline
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For men's religion to God is between God and themselves. The king shall not answer for it. Neither may the king be judge between God…
— Unknown Author
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive…
— John Masefield
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Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become…
— Horace Mann
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
— C.S. Lewis
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