Earth Quotes - Page 90

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.

To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in the mineral kingdom, is the proper object of a THEORY OF THE EARTH.

John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe.

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.

There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

To see Earth fully we already need to love it

For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.

I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.

We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.

My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.