Quotes About Earth

Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on.

a prerequisite for the creation of the intellectual edifice upon which your spreadsheets, air-conditioned offices and mobile phones rest was the curiosity-driven quest to understand the motions of the planets and the Earth's place amongst the stars.

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THE FIRST DAY OR SO WE ALL POINTED TO OUR COUNTRIES. THE THIRD OR FOURTH DAY WE WERE POINTING TO OUR CONTINENTS. BY THE FIFTH DAY WE WERE AWARE OF ONLY ONE EARTH.' — SULTAN BIN SALMAN BIN ABDULAZIZ AL-SAUD, SPACE SHUTTLE STS-51-G

Take note, politicians, economists and science policy advisors of the twenty-first century; a prerequisite for the creation of the intellectual edifice upon which your spreadsheets, air-conditioned offices and mobile phones rest was the curiosity-driven quest to understand the motions of the planets and the Earth's place amongst the stars.

The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.

earth. If you thought that the earth was not created to be a servant to humanity, but humanity was created to be a servant to the earth, then treating humans as servants and slaves would not be outrageous at all. Killing them might even be a good thing in this view. Perhaps this was also why the satyrs went to great lengths to protect the births of animals in the flocks but regularly caused miscarriages in her fellow nymphs, killing any infants that accidently survived.

The waters of the Abyss also operated as a passageway that linked the earth above with the underworld below. Panias had a nickname throughout the land. It was called the Gates of Hades.

The Seraphim above the throne were equally as glorious and awesome. Their humanoid yet serpentine bodies had six wings. With two they flew, two covered their feet, and two covered their faces. And all of them proclaimed the trisagion, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory.

Esagila meant "House of the Raised Head." Marduk meant to raise himself above the heads of all the gods. He wanted to rule in the heavens as Nimrod wanted to rule on earth.

Remember how we have talked about loving the earth and all her offspring? About how humans are no more important than animals? And how we should love all living things with an equal love?" It still didn't seem right to her. He continued, "Well, if we really love all humans, and we really love all the animals, then one of the ways we show that love is through unity. That is why we call it 'making love.

As mankind spread out upon the face of the earth, so did the evil that followed them. For it is the heart that is taken with man wherever he goes, and the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.

Mount Hermon was in Bashan, and Mount Hermon was a location in the Bible that was linked to the Rephaim (Josh. 12:1-5), but was also the legendary location where the sons of God were considered to have come to earth and have sexual union with the daughters of men to produce the giant Nephilim.[53]

They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. I said, "You are gods [elohim] sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince." Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!

Now Jesus would send out his messengers—Christian believers—and would use the Gospel to gather his elect from the four winds into his kingdom, a mountain that would grow to fill the earth in God's time.

The Earth Goddess is a parasite," said Diya. "Her roots burrow deep into the earth, and her branches seek the heavens as she sucks the life out of the environment and atmosphere around her. That is what she has done to create the desert that covers this peninsula." "Abomination of desolation," blurted Enoch. "Someone should destroy it," offered Lamech. "That would be very difficult," said Diya. "It would take a gibborim.

Abram thought of a play on words. He said to Mikael, "It is no longer Babylon the great, the eternal city, but Babel, because there El Shaddai confused the language of all the earth. And from there El Shaddai dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

Enoch explained, "When we were in the midst of the Gigantomachy, I knew that everything that I had believed in was a lie. I understood for the first time in my life that the only way that evil was allowed to spread its talons over the earth was for righteous men to do nothing. We will no longer do nothing. We will fight this evil.

Job 38:13 Take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it. Job 38:18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Psa. 136:6 To him who spreads out the earth above the waters. Isa. 44:24 "I am the LORD, who spread out the earth by myself.

Two objections are often raised when considering these passages. First, that they use phenomenal language. That is, they describe simply what the viewer observes and makes no cosmological claims beyond simply description of what one sees. We even use these terms of the sun rising and setting today and we know the earth moves around the sun. Fair enough.

While you were in Tartarus, up here on earth one hundred years have passed." Noah became dizzy as the reality hit him in the gut. "One hundred years?" He could not believe it. His breath shortened. He could feel his heart pounding in his chest. He wanted to run, but there was nowhere to go. "Yes," said Uriel. "The world has worsened. Every intent of the thought of man's heart is continually evil.

1Chr. 16:30 Tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. Psa. 93:1 Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. Psa. 96:10 Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.

Lastly, world can be interchangeable with earth as it is in 1Sam. 2:8, "For the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, And He set the world on them." And this adds a new element to the conversation of a stationary earth: A foundation of pillars.

Planet earth, which Carl Sagan described as a "mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam," is an evanescent bloom in an exquisite cosmos that will ultimately be barren. Motes of dust, nearby or distant, dance on sunbeams for merely a moment.