Quotes About Earth

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

When everything is blocked off,' I was told by a dear friend who lives in Erfurt, "one must try to live in the interstices.' Apparently, the Christians of the Apocalypse, though they did not bear the sign of the beast, had discovered or created such spaces. From islands like these, true culture, Christian culture, may spread across the earth. Many people are athirst for it.

Instead of transcendence and renunciation, Hervey, having learned the lesson of "the existence of a Oneness of Earth and Man," instead embraced the physical world "over which a Sublime Compassion casts an illusion of beauty.

Do you not know this, that from time immemorial, Since man was first set on earth, The joy of the wicked has been brief?… Though evil is sweet to his taste, His food in his bowels turns to venom within him. (20:4–5, 12–14) In

And this, oh Africa! latest called of nations,—called to the crown of thorns, the scourge, the bloody sweat, the cross of agony,—this is to be thy victory; by this shalt thou reign with Christ when his kingdom shall come on earth.

Augustine, sometimes I think you are not far from the kingdom," said Miss Ophelia, laying down her knitting, and looking anxiously at her cousin. "Thank you for your good opinion; but it's up and down with me,—up to heaven's gate in theory, down in earth's dust in practice.

Oh, if a man tried To take his time on earth And prove before he died What one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world

Our people have only the one chance. Our good deeds must be done on this earth in this life. And since there is no one to share the burden with them or to intercede

He and Onno had once come to the conclusion that you had to decide for yourself whether after your death you wanted to return to your father, then you must go into fire, because that was spirit, but your mother was of course the earth, the body.

All the rest is a postscript - the cloud of ash that rises into the stratosphere from the volcano, circles around the earth, and continues to rain down on all its continents for years.

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

The matrix of the heart, lift down the eye That shrines the quiet lake and swells a tower… The commodious, tall decorum of that sky Unseals her earth, and lifts love in its shower.

The defeat of Darwinism in the face of science can be reviewed under three basic topics: 1) The theory cannot explain how life originated on Earth. 2) No scientific finding shows that the "evolutionary mechanisms" proposed by the theory have any evolutionary power at all. 3) The fossil record proves the exact opposite of what the theory suggests. In this section, we will examine these three basic points in general outlines:

The soul of man is the spark of God. Though this spark is limited on the earth, still God is all-powerful; and by teaching the prayer 'Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven', the Master has given a key to every soul who repeats this prayer; a key to open that door behind which is the secret of that almighty power and perfect wisdom which raises the soul above all limitations.

If one has learned while on earth to create joy and happiness for oneself and for others, in the other world that joy and happiness surrounds one. And if one has sown the seeds of poison while on earth the fruits of these one must reap there; that is where one sees justice as the nature of life. The idea of

Des Lebens größtes Geheimnis ist die Kontinuität der Entwicklung. Hört Entwicklung auf, so ist das wie der Tod, und solange der Mensch sich entwickelt, kann Sterblichkeit ihn nicht berühren. Ob mit oder ohne Erfolg, wenn die Seele etwas zu erreichen wünscht, muss die Suche fortgesetzt werden, und durch Zielstrebigkeit wird eine Brücke von der Erde zum Himmel gebaut und vom Menschen zu Gott. (S. 36)

the greatest agony on earth didn't lie in the pain of living or the pain of death, but in the pain of separation that haunted the heart and soul?

She wasn't dead, but she was in hell. He'll on earth.

Halloween season. The season of the witch, so many thought. And, in legend, the night when souls could return to earth... And try to linger on. But the dead weren't really returning, the living created evil.

A unity in your minds eyes could glow the earths spirit with a reach to the eyes of God himself.

Beauties of earth gather in your eyes so if you dream of me I am blessed within your sighs.

To fill the earth with love release your thoughts into positive streams.

Mother Earth is always giving, even if it's a lesson. She is always giving." –Tiokasin Ghosthorse

There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.