Quotes About Earth

The claim so often put forth, that Christ changed the Sabbath, is disproved by His own words. In His sermon on the mount He said: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

By the word of God ...the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." 2 Peter 3:5-7. Another storm is coming. The earth will again be swept by the desolating wrath of God, and sin and sinners will be destroyed.

There is salvation for us, and why do we stay away from the fountain? Why not come and drink that our souls may be refreshed, invigorated, and may flourish in God? Why do we cling so closely to earth? There is something better than earth for us to talk about and think of. We can be in a heavenly frame of mind.

If you are to be saints in heaven, you must first be saints upon the earth.—

It was on the earth that the love of God was revealed through Christ. It is on the earth that His children are to reflect this love through blameless lives. Thus

For six thousand years, Satan has struggled to maintain possession of the earth. Now God's original purpose in its creation is accomplished.

Blood—" I rasped. "The earth cannot hold all the blood that's shed on it. And so the stream flows below. We have passed through it now; soon it will be gone from you.

Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

When the world began, it was very small. Songs blew the earth up to its present size. Songs turn frustration into power, anxiety into comfort. Like a blanket, they form a zone of protection around the singer. Sing on the way home alone at night in a fearful place and the song will move out into the space around you. Is this not prayer, sounds that come from our breath, lifting the spirit as they meet the air?

For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour--when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is what the band would have to do: make this perfect match of flesh to earth.

His touch calmed me. I thought I was going to melt into the earth.

the most high God [El Elyon], the possessor of heaven and earth" (14:22), he is telling this Gentile leader that God is the king's leader and that the king is God's servant.

Probably lots of people have died in the castle,' Susannah was saying sleepily. 'Cats, too. Lots of cats. The whole courtyard is probably full of graves, and we walk over them all the time.' 'I think,' Layla said, quite seriously, 'that people and cats turn back to the earth after a while. So what you walk over is just earth, Susannah.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn't able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

Cînd zaresc cerul, îmi vine sa ma dizolv în el, iar cînd privesc pamîntul, sa ma îngrop în maruntaiele lui.

Ce-i vom raspunde oarbei care se plange in poezia lui Rilke: «nu mai pot trai asa cu cerul pe mine»? Oare am mangaia-o de i-am spune ca nu mai putem trai cu pamantul sub noi?

Arbori masacraÅ£i. R?sar case. Mutre, mutre pretutindeni: omul e cancerul P?mântului.

Bach este un alt cuvânt pentru sublim ÅŸi cuvântul propriu pentru consolare. Muzica divin? ne închide singur? pleoapele. Ochii nu pot vedea decât p?mântul.

Sunt lacrimi care sfredelesc p?mântul ÅŸi r?sar ca aÅŸtrii pe alte ceruri. Cine ne-o fi plâns stelele noastre?

There are tears which pierce through the earth and rise as stars in other skies. I wonder who has wept our stars?

A human being possessed by a belief and not eager to pass it on to others is a phenomenon alien to the earth, where our mania for salvation makes life unbreathable.

An authentically chosen people, the Gypsies bear the responsibility for no event, for no institution. They have triumphed over the earth by their desire to found nothing upon it.

Universul îmi explodeaz? în creier. Febr? insuportabil?. Sunt la un pas de Haos. Elementele se dezl?nÈ›uie. P?mântul îmi fuge de sub picioare. Cine m? va reconcilia cu lucrurile? Un punct fix, caut un punct fix, È™i nu g?sesc decât incertitudine È™i noroi, È™i un delir irepresibil.