Quotes about Earth

For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

As our God Most High fights, we flourish. As err his people flourish, our God strikes the killing blow. The battles in heaven are seen on earth, and the battles of earth do not escape the notice of heaven. We flourish when we are one with each other and with heaven's purpose.

I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.

This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?

The perennial temptation is to creep under the angel's flaming sword, to try to create a heaven on earth.

the Western form of ignoring real spiritual evils by building a technological heaven on earth. Both are doomed to failure

Heaven will do to earth what the New Law did to the Old: not replacement but consummation (Mt 5:17).

We are not citizens of earth who are going to heaven; we are citizens of heaven who are traveling through earth.

Yet the last words the Lord Jesus spoke to us before rising into the sky and departing from us were these: 'But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Our welfare in the hereafter depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth.

Earth is not heaven. It was never meant to be. No new car, new house, new living room furniture, new kitchen appliances, new clothes, new hair, new baby, new vacation, new job, new income, new husband, or new anything will ever satisfy us, because we were not made for the things of this world.

As Elijah's mantle fell on Elisha and as other prophetic disciples sought to emulate their mentors, so the ascending Jesus empowered his church with the Spirit to carry on his mission to the ends of the earth (1:9—11).