Earth Quotes - Page 5

Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.

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 will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme truth.

But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.

Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.

Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?

My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God."

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation.

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.

We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose

Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive