Earth Quotes - Page 32

• Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Taken, Cutting, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

  Hafez

  Eye, Way, Sun

  105 Copy quote

• When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Ask Me, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• If your ego starts out, "I am important, I am big, I am special," you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Disappointment, Special You, Space

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson on the New Cosmos". "Moyers & Company", billmoyers.com. January 10, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is a holy Being. The angels are holy creatures. Holiness is written on everything in heaven... How shall we ever be at home and happy in heaven if we die unholy?

  J. C. Ryle

  Home, Angel, Heaven

  J. C. Ryle (2010). “Holiness (Abridged): Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.96, Moody Publishers

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted. It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe. I do not know its name. If I am forced to give It a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme.

  Laozi

  Mother, Names, Giving

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Running, Children, Insanity

  7 Copy quote

• We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

  George Whitefield

  Done, Immortal

  20 Copy quote

• To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life

  Sakyong Mipham

  Spirit, Protect, Spirit Of Life

  Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.10, Harmony

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on
  earth like unconditional love.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Unconditional Love, Unconditional

  4 Copy quote

• I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  People, Support, Body

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.100, BOA Editions, Ltd.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.

  J. I. Packer

  Love Is, Heaven, Knowing God

  J. I. Packer (1993). “Knowing God Study Guide”, p.21, InterVarsity Press

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• In order to reveal the gifts that lie beneath the surface of your heart’s greatest desires, you must look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the Divine, and bring forth your soul’s legacy into the present moment.

  Debbie Ford

  Lying, Heart, Order

  10 Copy quote

• Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving Up, Devil, Want

  67 Copy quote

• The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

  Malcolm X

  Art, Stars, Men

  36 Copy quote

• I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, World, Quiet

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in the unfolding of His divine plan. Nothing, however small, however strange, occurs without His ordering, or without its particular fitness for its place in the working out of His purpose; and the end of all shall be the manifestation of His glory, and the accumulation of His praise.

  B. B. Warfield

  Fall, Work Out, Events

  108 Copy quote

• Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

  Lester R. Brown

  Numbers, Natural

  22 Copy quote

• More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth.

  John Pilger

  Media, Tyrants, Training

  "The great charade". www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2002.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.

  Julianne MacLean

  Writing, Make You Smile, Contentment

  4 Copy quote

• From The Spiral Dance to Dreaming the Dark to Truth or Dare, Starhawk has led us to places of risk and guided us to think in a new way, a womanly order. Now, in fiction, with the aid of her characters, she will save the earth and all the sacred things that dwell therein.

  E. M. Broner

  Dream, Character, Dark

  4 Copy quote

• I have realized that nothing else matters besides this:
  Am I doing everything God has put me on this earth to do?

  Christine Caine

  Matter

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Mar 10, 2015

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Wings, Needs, Screens

  74 Copy quote

• Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.

  Pablo Neruda

  Children, Wine, Night

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.163, Univ of California Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

  John Lamb Lash

  Empathy, Essentials, Plight

  John Lamb Lash (2006). “Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief”, p.209, Chelsea Green Publishing

  6 Copy quote

  Show source