Quotes About Earth

In the most general sense of progressive thought, the Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

Dies irae, dies illa / Solvet saeclum in favilla / Teste David cum Sibylla [Day of wrath, that day, the earth will dissolve in ashes, as David and the Sibyl say].

Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis [Glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace to men of good will].

And he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.

O tribe of [spirits] and of men, if you are able to pass through the confines of heaven and earth, pass through them! You shall not pass through them except with [the Lord's] authority.

The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice.

God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Every lion comes from its den,All the serpents bite;Darkness hovers, earth is silent,As their maker rests in lightland.Earth brightens when you dawn in lightland,When you shine as Aten of daytime;As you dispel the dark,As you cast your rays,The Two Lands are in festivity.Awake they stand on their feet,You have roused them.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?

If there is a paradise on the face of the earth,It is this, oh! it is this, oh! it is this.

The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth.

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.

Four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth.

Dust is just a country accent.

We offered this trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to carry it and were afraid of it; and man carried it. Surely he is sinful, very foolish.