Upon Earth Quotes
91 Upon Earth quotes by 68 unique authors
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The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom…
— Joanna Southcott
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Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of…
— David Icke
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I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed…
— George V
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There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of good…
— Mirra Alfassa
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Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On…
— John Quincy Adams
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God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
— Honore de Balzac
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For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the…
— Muhammad Asad
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Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
— John Quincy Adams
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
— Lady Gregory
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God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
— Jeremy Taylor
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Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen,…
— John Wesley
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The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is…
— Edward Gibbon
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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should…
— Charles Dickens
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The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away…
— Emily Dickinson
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If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
— Sydney Smith
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Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around…
— Loren Eiseley
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When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we…
— Charles Spurgeon
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God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought…
— Andrew Murray
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people;…
— J C Ryle
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What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda
— Ouida
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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…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
— Charles Dickens
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Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many…
— Anton Chekhov
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