Best Earthly Wisdom
445 Earthly quotes by 354 unique authors
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I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its…
— Henry Beston
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The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
— Andre Breton
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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 the…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.
— Rumi
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There are 64 divine mother impulses which govern the subtle creation. These are responsible for restoring all earthly and spiritual benefits. They are simply part…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some…
— Octavio Paz
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Recognize that you are a spiritual being who is part of a large cosmic family of spiritual beings. You have the power, strength, and talent…
— James Van Praagh
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One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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"I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense into a heaven…
— John Shelby Spong
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Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power…
— Deepak Chopra
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A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
— Richard Aldington
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the…
— Plato
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The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ…
— Albert Mohler
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Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
— Og Mandino
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Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip
— Charles Spurgeon
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Jesus has given you the power to live as He lived, which is something no earthly teacher can do.
— James Robison
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Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly…
— John of the Cross
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My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have…
— Ben Jonson
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Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot serve God and…
— John of Kronstadt
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Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again whence He came,…
— Gregory Palamas
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The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be temperate to the…
— John of Kronstadt
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