Quotes About Earthliness

No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it, but longing to degrade not even death; we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends, to feel its hands about us like a friend's.

I, too, wanted to do penance for my own sins and for the sins of the whole world, for I had a keen sense of sin, of natural imperfection and earthliness.

Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.