Quotes About Earth

We are the first species in the known history of three and a half billion years of life on earth with the capacity to control our own destiny. The prospect of designing our destiny remains excellent to the degree that we comprehend our evolutionary past. Only by examining the complex repertoire of human sexual strategies can we know where we came from. Only by understanding why these human strategies have evolved can we control where we are going.

Since it is so difficult in the concrete to judge what is and is not "mortal sin," and who is and is not subjectively guilty of it, we should choose pastorally not to make that judgment except in extreme and obvious cases. Then Eucharist would be recognized again as what it really is: not just the "bread of angels," but on this earth the strengthening food and sacrament of sinners.

As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God."

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.

The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.

Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?

Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.

According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man's prerogative - and woman's - to create their own particular and private hell.

What is the will of God? On earth as it is in heaven. If it doesn't exist there, it's not supposed to exist here. If it does exist there, it's supposed to exist here.

God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.

As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.

Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.