Quotes About Earthly

Humildad tiene que ver también con «humor». El humilde tiene humor. Se puede reír de sí mismo. Toma distancia de sí. Puede mirarse tranquilo a sí mismo porque se permite ser como es: un ser humano de la tierra y un ser humano del cielo, una persona con faltas y debilidades y, al mismo tiempo, digna de amor y valiosa.

Now, now that she was older and perhaps wiser, love meant a partnership, in which each partner would be honest to the other, in which each would wish and strive for the other's welfare, to that this their joint welfare might be insured. Then, in those early girlish days, it had meant a total abnegation of self. The one was of earth, and therefore possible. The other had been a ray from heaven, - and impossible, except in a dream.

learned something in that schoolroom of sorrow where our earthly lessons are taught.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

Religion could do no more for my mother than the hope of posthumous success could do for me. Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

Through the things of nature, and the deepest and tenderest earthly ties that human hearts can know, He (God) has sought to reveal Himself to us. Yet these but imperfectly represent His love.

By his own bitter experience, Solomon learned the emptiness of a life that seeks in earthly things its highest good.

Refuzul divin al p?mântului pleac? dintr-o nemângâiere sfâÅŸietoare, pe care o putem îndulci cu o acceptare disperat? a lumii. Din moment ce-mi este interzis? gloria cereasc?, trebuie s?-mi fie indiferent c? aici, jos, voi ajunge ministru sau paznic de bordel.

Jane wanted to agree and to offer him the broken dwarf, perhaps for Constance's grave, as a kind of comment on the futility of earthly love, but instead she said gently, 'You must make Jessie happy. That will be the right thing for you now.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

I have never given my soul to the keeping of an earthly body, And so I can sing at all times and seasons.

Divine Fire The fire of God, which is His essential being, His love, His creative power, is a fire unlike its earthly symbol in this, that it is only at a distance it burns—that the further from Him, it burns the worse.

Often a heart capable of loving seeks in vain where to bestow its love, and comes forth pure of all earthly passions, perhaps to find a place in heaven. Ah! when God vouchsafes to us on earth that profound, passionate, ineffable sentiment, we must no longer desire or hope for paradise, Juliette; for paradise is the blending of two hearts in a kiss of love. And when we have found it here on earth, what matters it whether it be in the arms of a saint or of one of the damned?

George Washington once wrote that leading by conviction gave him "a consolation within that no earthly efforts can deprive me of." He continued: "The arrows of malevolence, however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me.

In truly understanding the Goddess and God, one comes to understand life, for the two are inextricably entwined. Live your earthly life fully, but try to see the spiritual aspects of your activities as well. Remember—the physical and spiritual are but reflections of each other.

The Church is the Body of Christ, and as such it is both heavenly and earthly. The Church is the communion of saints, and it includes as members both angels and shepherds - cherubim and seraphim, and you, and me.

The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations will perish from his land. You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror" (Ps. 10:16–18 NIV).

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.

Only a dry as dust religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.