Earth Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you…

— Laura Esquivel

“He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief that if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

— Victor Hugo

“He had never thought himself a great sinner before but he saw now that his true depravity had been hidden from him lest it…

— Flannery O'Connor

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion.…

— Patrick Süskind

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it…

— Victor Hugo

“He drove him out of Paradise, and removed him far from the tree of life, not because He envied him the tree of life,…

— The Church Fathers

“God had His hand in all the providences and dispensations that overtook His elect; so He had His hand in all the temptations that…

— John Bunyan

He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him…

— Peter S. Beagle

Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some…

— Henry B. Eyring

“He felt as if a clear light broke upon his mind, and with it a conviction that, good was, after all, stronger than evil,…

— Willa Cather