Upon Earth Quotes
91 Upon Earth quotes by 68 unique authors
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A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh,…
— H.G. Wells
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If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who…
— John Godfrey Saxe
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Yesterday, two firefighters with the Florida Division of Forestry were killed while working on the Blue Ribbon Fire in Florida. On behalf of the 3,500…
— John Godfrey Saxe
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He shines upon me and makes me to rejoice, and has atoned for me all that was taken from me and done against me. There…
— Hannah Hurnard
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God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
— Archibald Alexander
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The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will…
— Christopher Love
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Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give - my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,…
— Elizabeth Prentiss
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Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect…
— Herbert Spencer
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For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life…
— St. Jerome
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More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.
— Joseph Fort Newton
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Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth…
— John Quincy Adams
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It would seem, after this, that even when living upon earth we must live as if in the heavenly kingdom, dwelling there in anticipation by…
— John of Kronstadt
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Modern times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The conflict with hell cannot be engaged by men, even the…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life…
— John Quincy Adams
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Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
— J C Ryle
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Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation…
— Philip Schaff
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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are…
— Ellen G. White
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Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
— Euripides
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The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the…
— Anton Chekhov
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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
— Joseph de Maistre
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How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating…
— Gerard De Nerval
Who Wrote These Upon Earth Quotes
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