Best Earthly Proverbs
445 Earthly quotes by 354 unique authors
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If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead…
— Gregory Palamas
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God loves his children more than any earthly parent, so think what your kindness to his children means to him.
— Henry B. Eyring
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If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods.…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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If the loss of your earthly fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.
— Elizabeth Prentiss
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Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.
— C.S. Lewis
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The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
— Hildegard of Bingen
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Our earthly ball a peopled garden.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans and expectations. It is a separation from all we…
— J C Ryle
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Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.
— Chris Oyakhilome
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I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.
— Max Lucado
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So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of…
— Boethius
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What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after…
— Alice Hoffman
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Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted, like a giant cedar, but…
— Rajneesh
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Every true revival . . . has had its earthly origin in prayer.
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Put Your Spouse First: When the children are grown and move out of the home, who will be left but your spouse? Nurture that relationship…
— Miriam
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If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.
— Leland Ryken
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We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied…
— Samuel Johnson
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