Quotes About Earth

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of Christ.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

By Mary, God descended from Heaven into the world, so that by her men might ascend from earth into Heaven.