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Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. -- Charles Stanley
The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city. -- Carolina Herrera
Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy. -- C. S. Lewis
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. -- Andre Breton
Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come. -- Paul Althaus
Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. -- Henry Kirke White
An ordinary place turns into an extraordinary place when visited by a good music! Earthly place becomes celestial! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison. -- Thomas Dubay
Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite. -- Joseph Hall
Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality. -- Ian Gardner
Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access. -- Otto von Bismarck
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea... -- William Morris
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. -- Lionel Shriver
Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an object of wonder. -- Marilynne Robinson
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them. -- John Locke
Earthly possessions are not what you came here to gather. Do not worry about your earthly possessions. Place your attention on your heavenly goal - the evolution of your soul - and you will find peace even while on earth. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul. -- Anthony of Padua
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined. -- Franklin Pierce
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created. -- Rumi
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. -- Francois Fenelon
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. -- Isaac Newton
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. -- Plato
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown. -- Diana Cooper
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. -- Donald Cargill
Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power. -- Sander Levin
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people. -- Alvar Aalto
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see. -- John Masefield
When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart. -- Heber J. Grant
The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness. -- John Bradshaw
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. -- Sai Baba
The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation. -- Lafcadio Hearn
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual? -- Robert Barclay
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. -- Pope John Paul II
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon. -- Solomon Northup
From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend. -- Lucy Larcom
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God. -- Lucy Larcom
I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had. -- Don Everly
The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied. -- Ellen G. White
I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits. I am quite ready to accept the limits of what I can do, but every time I feel that way - boom! - God touches me and I do something that's even more stupendous than whatever I've done up to then. -- Don King
The first of earthly blessings, independence. -- Edward Gibbon
Our earthly ball a peopled garden. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time mends all, ends all things earthly. -- B. C. Forbes
Divine ashes are better then earthly meale. -- George Herbert
An angel; or, if not, An earthly paragon. -- William Shakespeare
Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually. -- Donald L. Hallstrom
God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense. -- Charles R. Swindoll
You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good. -- Johnny Cash
We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. -- Eden Ahbez
Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly. -- Hildegard of Bingen
God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know? -- Rick Moody
A felon's cell-- The fittest earthly type of hell! -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly. -- Hildegard of Bingen
God is not outside this earthly case of ours. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I may die of earthly love, or of devotion. -- Arthur Rimbaud
assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest ... -- Fanny Kemble
We're not earthly beings any moreâ?¦ we're cosmic beings. -- Eden Ahbez
Every true revival . . . has had its earthly origin in prayer. -- R. A. Torrey
I have been monitoring your earthly broadcasts for many years. -- Frank Zappa
Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience. -- John Edward
Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal. -- Rick Warren
I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved. -- Friedrich Schiller
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. -- Adolf Hitler
My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings -- Peter Paul Rubens
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession. -- George D. Prentice
Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual -- Anna Pavlova
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. -- David Livingstone
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life. -- Friedrich Schiller
But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny. -- Owen Wister
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart. -- William Gurnall
With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer. -- James Russell Lowell
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown. -- Christopher Marlowe
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. -- Mark Twain
Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life. -- Friedrich Schiller
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. -- Agnes Repplier
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The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die. -- Simone de Beauvoir
... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord. -- Augustine of Hippo
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills. -- Thomas a Kempis
She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years. -- William Wordsworth
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Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes. -- Thomas Carlyle
The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall. -- Emily Dickinson
Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life. -- Leland Ryken
True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city. -- Timothy Keller
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Everything that we have in this earthly life should serve the Kingdom of God. -- Sunday Adelaja
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime. -- Christopher Hitchens
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife. -- Franklin P. Adams
The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor. -- Lincoln Steffens
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. -- Alister E. McGrath
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. -- Channing Pollock
Life is undoubtedly the most valuable and the most precious of all our earthly possessions. -- Sunday Adelaja
But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince. -- John Jewel
This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear. -- Mahatma Gandhi
That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! -- Robert Pollok
By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. -- Thomas a Kempis
For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions. -- John Cole
Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip -- Charles Spurgeon
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. -- William Shakespeare
I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it. -- Anita Roddick
Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity. -- Chris Oyakhilome
Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling. -- Thomas a Kempis
Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence. -- Muhammad Asad
A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever. -- Thomas Carlyle
His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison. -- Boyd K. Packer
As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself. -- Ken Blanchard
Islam understands its earthly mission to extend the law of Allah over the world by force. -- Robert Spencer
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity. -- Angelus Silesius
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles. -- B. B. Warfield
I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things. -- Ken Blanchard

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