Quotes About Earth

I wanted perfection. But it turns out, here on earth, we don't get perfection; we get people.

So the resurrection of Jesus was simply God's unwillingness to take our no for an answer. He raised Jesus, not as an invitation to us to come to heaven when we die, but as a declaration that he, himself, has now established permanent, eternal residence on earth.

my qualities are so small, the same of those of other men, my flaws, my negative side is beautiful and concave like an abyss. What I am not would leave an enormous hole in the earth.

El mar es mío, el sol es mío, la tierra es mía. Y me siento feliz por nada, por todo.

Meanwhile the clouds are white and the sky is all blue. Why so much God. Why not a little for men.

Truth doesn't make sense, the hugeness of the world makes me shrink. What I probably asked for and finally found still ended up leaving me unprepared, like a child walking alone across the earth.

Without the Earth, the Sun would be light only, not life.

From top to bottom, from left to right, my glance has made a cross on that other woman, has crossed her off the face of the earth.

Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist-covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or the tears of a little girl. Without exploding stars, perhaps there could be a heaven, but there is certainly no Earth.

Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.

It was a hopeless thing, he thought, this obsession of his to present the people of the Earth as good and reasonable. For in many ways they were neither good nor reasonable; perhaps because they had not as yet entirely grown up. They were smart and quick and at times compassionate and even understanding, but they failed lamentably in many other ways.

He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man.

Like the temperature of a fireplace, everything on earth is dependent on the temperature.

Different planets, constellations and satellites move around and stay around. People on earth are just the same. That is why life is full of wonders!

Elements outside the earth are more predictable. Elements inside the earth are less predictable.

There's hate in the word earth. But the art, heart and heat of man's compassion can never be replaced by hate.

The wretched of the earth get no help from witch doctors, and when academic language gets beyond shouting distance of ordinary speech, voodoo is all it is.

All this is still my kingdom, a small portion of the splendid riches which God distributes to passers-by, to wanderers and to solitaries. The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and goes on his way; the whole sun belongs to the naked lizard who basks in it.

Our mission is in the context of the kingdom of God, inaugurated by Jesus Christ yet still only here in part. Our missiological task is to be agents of God's kingdom rule—transforming not just individuals but society and also seeking the renewal and healing of creation, praying and working for God's kingdom on earth as in heaven.

Forget the planet, save the garden.

The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.

While looking thus, his [Nero] glance rested on the Apostle [Peter] standing on the stone. For a while those two men looked at each other. It occurred to no one in that brilliant retinue, and to no one in that immense throng, that at that moment two powers of the earth were looking at each other, one of which would vanish quickly as a bloody dream, and the other, dressed in simple garments, would seize in eternal possession the world and the city.

There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.