Best Earthly Quotations
445 Earthly quotes by 354 unique authors
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All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Purify your heart and clean it from all earthly matters. The time of fun and waste has gone. The time of judgment has arrived. Hence…
— Mohamed Atta
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Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be…
— Pope Boniface VIII
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
— Plato
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I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other…
— Socrates
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No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life…
— Van Jones
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We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the…
— Sarah Palin
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Islam understands its earthly mission to extend the law of Allah over the world by force.
— Robert Spencer
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All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the…
— Wernher von Braun
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Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people….Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Let us truly be a temple-attending and temple-loving people...We should not go only for our kindred dead, but also for the personal blessings of temple…
— Howard W. Hunter
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The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but in the forsaking…
— James E. Faust
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Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In…
— L. Tom Perry
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No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an…
— Pope Francis
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Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.
— Dinesh D'Souza
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There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those…
— Paracelsus
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Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.
— Thomas a Kempis
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I am just an earthly sinful father & I love my kids so much it hurts. How could I not trust a heavenly, perfect Father…
— Francis Chan
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Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.
— Rick Warren
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The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.
— Lady Jane Grey
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The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep…
— Ayn Rand
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I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the…
— J C Ryle
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