Quotes about Earth
We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.
- Gordon Hinckley
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.
- Peter Marshall
Rather than giving in to meaninglessness and despair, Christian artists know that there is a way out. Thus they create images of grace, awakening a desire for the new heavens and the new earth by anticipating the possibilities of redemption in Christ.
- Philip Graham Ryken
Any heart turned Godward feels more joy In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
- Philip James Bailey
Who knoweth God the sum of science owns. The heavens record His handiwork; the earth Worships His footsteps; life His breath repeats; The soul His image; everlasting space, The harmonies of His nature echoing, round Reflects His vast extension; the great whole, His boundless being, and His infinite mind.
- Philip James Bailey
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
- Charles Spurgeon
This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.
- Pope Benedict XVI
God is separate from nature, and nature is condemned of God. It's right there in Genesis: we are to be the masters of the world. But if you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth.
- Joseph Campbell
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
- Abraham Lincoln