Quotes about Ground
For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.
— James MacDonald
Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
— Paulo Coelho
A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
— Abraham Lincoln
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
— Aldous Huxley
To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.
— William Wordsworth
I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.
— John Knox
Conclusion On the basis, therefore, of both philosophical and scientific evidence, we have good grounds for believing that the universe began to exist. Since whatever begins to exist has a cause of its beginning, it follows that the universe has a cause of its beginning.
— William Lane Craig
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
— Paul Tillich
When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.
— Cornelius Van Til
Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.
— Beth Moore