Earth Quotes - Page 23

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs.

May we grow in strength — without pride in self. May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. And so shall America — in the sight of all men of good will — prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

Eucharistic adoration is the greatest of actions. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored the Word Incarnate in her virginal womb, when she adored Him in the Crib, on Calvary, in the divine Eucharist

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself

God’s dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.

If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

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 multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

Is there intelligent life on Earth?

It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take 'everyone on Earth' to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.