Quotes About Earthly

All of our earthly concerns are quite transient compared to the sky.

The perceived world is the always presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value and all existence. This thesis does not destroy either rationality or the absolute. It only tries to bring them down to earth.

The Shen is a circle, representing endless time, eternity, bound to a horizontal bar, the earthly plane once more. It protects life by isolating and enclosing it, defining that which it surrounds, defending it against hostile forces.

TARTUFFE. Love for the beauty of eternal things Cannot destroy our love for earthly beauty;

A realist speaks from experience and from a worldly point of view, rather than getting too involved in heavenly affairs.

The fear of death comes from identifying yourself as the body. The earthly component, rather than the pure soul within.

What is the purpose of throwing aside and leaving behind all the corporeal things down on Earth if your only wish is to receive the same things in heaven?

Many devout Christians accepted that unbiblical cosmology, opting for a detached spirituality (a heavenly-mindedness with a questionable earthly use) and an escapist eschatology (leaving the world and going to heaven).

It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).

But left to themselves, thoughts often go dumpster diving, digging through fleshly things, carnal things, earthly things, untrue, ignoble, unjust, impure, unlovely, and unkind things.

PRAYER is the master key,. A key, may fit one door of a house, but when it fits all doors it may well claim to be a master key. Such and no less a key, is prayer to all earthly problems.

If it is merely a matter of organizing an earthly paradise, curates are more than enough. The devil will do.

The modern clergy declare that Christianity seeks to solve earthly problems—thereby confusing it with utopia.

Once more the mystery was performed. The tiny fleshly tabernacle was completed and separated; and from some place afar off the visitant soul which had been awaiting its earthly dwelling moved in and took possession.

Holy sleep, do not so seldom bring happiness to the night's beloved in this earthly labour of the day.

And the quiet of the house is also the quiet of stalks and vines that no longer jangle at any touch of of wind, or bird, or person passing, but which have been laced and bound into new patterns and have been now given new stories to tell. Stories that lace and bind the earthly matters to matters not of earth.

Of what earthly value is Christianity if it leaves no indelible mark on one's lifestyle? It is of no value (in this life) to be Christian if you do not think Christianly--if you do not have a Christian life view.

The air was heavy with unstable chemicals, mold, and the earthy stench of hashish. The fat of candles burned, great tears of wax spilling onto the sidewalk.

You have only two choices: an "on earth" way of thinking that is all about this right here, right now physical moment, or an "above" way of thinking that looks at life from the vantage point of the grand redemptive story and, more specifically, from the perspective of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another ... There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.' (1 Corinthians 15:35–44).

Using your resources to help spread the gospel ensures both an earthly blessing and a heavenly reward

if you restrict earthly things, you set up your thoughts free for the spiritual.

If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.