Quotes About Earthly

I am sorry, Fletcher," said Tandy, beating him to the apology. "But to explain the hows and whys of my earthly presence would be to explain something your brain is not capable of processing. No offense, of course." "No offense taken." "And please remember that I'm new to this, too. I am certain there will be many situations for which I have no explanation.

My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one.

I also hoped that my own track record, the things I'd written, the work I'd done, the person I had been, would be my best defense against the demonization of my character and motives that was taking place. But those were thoughts from before the time in which we all became too frightened of religion in general and one particular religion in particular—religion redefined as the capacity of religionists to commit earthly violence in the name of their unearthly sky god.

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

what was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.

Like Jesus, who didn't know who his biological father was either. I have often thought it was this lack of knowledge of his earthly father that led him to his 'heavenly' one, for there is in all of us a yearning to know our own source, and no source is likely to seem too farfetched to a lonely, fatherless child.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.

Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

That here on earth is no sure happiness.

Our opinions, young Englishman, are the angel part of us; our acts the earthly.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

The rest of the newly-arrived person is frequently advisable, or necessary, to allow of adjustment of the spirit body to its new conditions of life. It has been accustomed to being very securely fastened to the physical body whereit can receive whatever unpleasantness the physical body may be submitted to during the course of its earthly term.

I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects. ? Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 . (Schocken October 30, 1988) Originally published 1949.

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

So we work for better political and economic systems, knowing that sin precludes any earthly utopia now, but rejoicing in the assurance that the kingdom of shalom that the Messiah has already begun will one day prevail, and the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord.

He had learned one truth in his work—there was no changing the true arrangement of a human heart. One dealt with the earthly exigencies.

Seus tesouros estavam todos guardados na Terra, pois vivera apena para os pequenos prazeres mundanos, as coisas efêmeras, e esqueceu-se das grandes coisas que seguem junto da alma até a eternidade e que constroem uma ponte sobre o hiato que há entre as duas vidas, fazendo da morte uma mera passagem entre tempos e lugares, como do anoitecer ao dia pleno