Quotes about Earth
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
— Ignatius of Antioch
In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.
— Thomas Cranmer
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
— St. Augustine
His Kingdom on this earth was to rule the visible world of man from the invisible realm of the spirit.
— Myles Munroe
But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.
— Charles Hodge
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
— Albert Schweitzer
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
— Thomas Merton
Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.
— Genesis 10:25
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
— Psalm 24:1
As, when the sun shines above the earth, the shadow is spread over its lower part, because its spherical shape makes it impossible for it to be clasped all round at one and the same time by the rays, and necessarily, on whatever side the sun's rays may fall on some particular point of the globe, if we follow a straight diameter, we shall find shadow upon the opposite point, and so, continuously, at the opposite end of the direct line of the rays shadow moves round that globe,
— Gregory of Nyssa
For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
— St. Thomas Aquinas