Earth Quotes - Page 58

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

I believe God put me on this Earth to be the best person I could be, and that God put everyone to be the best person they could be.

The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth.

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited but most kitchens close at ten.

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

War only in the ring. Peace on earth

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.

From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored, limited in resources, and reduced in mystery.

The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.

Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.