Time On Earth Quotes - Page 2

• It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

  Cesar Chavez

  Opportunity, Giving, Justice

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press

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• Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth to teaching about them. The one certainty is that our position in the Lord's kingdom will be inversely proportional to how we indulge ourselves in this lifetime.

  Larry Burkett

  Christian, Teaching, Earth

  Larry Burkett (1990). “Business by the Book: The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for Business Men and Women”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make money, to keep a record of our time on earth and in dream, and to leave a permanent mark. Dissension is a drive, like those drives.

  Carol Bly

  Dream, Dog, Animal

  Carol Bly (1988). “Letters from the Country”, HarperCollins

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• The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth... our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.

  Sylvia Earle

  Impact, Numbers, Profound

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable. Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Ambition, People, Want

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• I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.

  Patti Smith

  Cards, Matter, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They try to fix external verities, things that are true for all time, ideas that are true for all time: Rome will last forever! America will last forever! Beauty, as defined by the fashion industry, is one of those things—this is beautiful. This will always be beautiful—and hold it in a way that has some sense of permanence about it, and absoluteness. And yet it’s not.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Beautiful, Fashion, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. February 2009.

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• For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Powerful, Ideas, Long

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• If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

  Garth Brooks

  Past, Lasts, Faces

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• Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them

  Dan Schilling

  Rewards, Faults, Counting

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• How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

  Alice Walker

  Impact, World, Mets

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• If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

  Harry Chapin

  Men, World, Wonder

  Song: I Wonder What Would Happen To This World, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.

  John Denver

  Struggle, Deep Love, Light

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• I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

  Johnny Weir

  Art, Culture, Want

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• It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

  David G. McAfee

  Happy Life, Afterlife, Disease

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Mar 22, 2014

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