Quotes About Earthly

A régebbi zeneszerzÅ'k közül nekem Chopin és Schubert a legkedvesebb. Tudom, hogy a zenetanárunknak igaza volt, amikor Mozartot mennyeinek, Beethovent nagyszer?nek, Gluckot páratlannak, Bachot pedig hatalmasnak nevezte; tudom. Bach nekem mindig olyan, mint egy harminckötetes dogmatika, amely bámulatba ejt. De Schubert és Chopin két olyan földi lény, amilyen alighanem magam is vagyok.

Himmlisch ist's, wenn ich bezwugen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nicht gelungen, Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!"* *"Splendid if I overcome My earthy passion, But if I succeed not, Still I have known happiness!

he would have been considered quite a suitable match. But Levin was in love, and therefore Kitty seemed to him so perfect in every respect, so transcending everything earthly, and he seemed to himself so very earthly and insignificant a creature, that the possibility of his being considered worthy of her by others or by herself was to him unimaginable.

El dinero, los honores ganados a fuerza de envilecerse, la pugna por conseguir una felicidad terrenal, que se desvanece entre sus dedos y que se escapa para siempre, hacen que el rebaño humano se convierta en horda pululante, que se agita y corre hacia aquí y hacia allá, tropezando y destrozándose, en busca de una liberación que nunca se encuentra

It is not that we don't have confidence in our God to save us from hell; we just don't have confidence in Him to do everything else he has promised to do while we are still on Earth.

When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom.

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

The crossing of the Red Sea is, according to the allegorical or symbolic meaning, really the entrance into matter. Water always stands for matter in the esoteric wisdom. The well-known story of the forty years the Jews spent wandering in the wilderness was a mythical construct that was symbolic of the soul's life in the body during its earthly sojourn.

perfection is an earthly illusion and is used as an excuse not to complete workplace or kingdom-purpose projects. For many, it's the fear of failure in disguise.

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.

I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.

I have done no harm. But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say 'this poet lies! Such heaven never touched earthly faces

I'm -- earthy. I don't look at a figure on a cross, I look at the things round me. Those are what I love; my husband, my child, my dog, my garden, my spinet, my bedroom, my home. Earthy. You see. But I have love overflowing for all those. Those are more important to me than a Man sitting on a throne in Heaven. I hope if I explain it to Him when I see Him, He'll come round to see it my way . . .

the monuments of dead commanders and shot-torn regiments are of different years. An earthly palimpsest of tragedy!

Wie tussen de mensen heeft geleefd, en nog altijd uitkijkt naar een onverwachte gebeurtenis, die heeft niets begrepen en zal nooit iets begrijpen. Hij is rijp voor de Stad: alles moet hem worden aangeboden, alle posten en alle eerbetoon - en dat verklaart de duurzaamheid van die ondermaanse hel.

A virtuous expediency, then, seems the highest desirable or attainable earthly excellence for the mass of men, and is the only earthly excellence that their Creator intended for them.

Therefore the fame of her excellence will never perish, and the immortals will fashion among earthly men a gracious song in honor of faithful Penelope.

This moment's chord of earthly commotion will never be struck exactly so again-- though love does love to repeat its favorite lines.

In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity.

There are many earthly languages. There are many heavenly languages. There are many blazing, blinding tomorrows. But they all lead to the same glorious tomorrow at last.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

Are we to assist it in gaining power, in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?

The 20th century is a graveyard in which millions of corpses were sacrificed to the illusion of an earthly salvation.