Quotes about Earth
There is only one path to heaven. On Earth we call it Love.
- Ayn Rand
It's roots clutched the hill like a fist with fingers sunk into the soil, and he thought that if a giant were to seize it by the top, he would not be able to uproot it, but would swing the hill and the whole earth with it, like a ball at the end of a string.
- Ayn Rand
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
- Marianne Williamson
Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.
- Rick Warren
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
To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
- Joseph Heller
Charis always demands the answer eucharistia (that is, grace always demands the answer of gratitude). Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Grace evokes gratitude like the voice an echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
- Eugene Peterson
Know this well, then. Take it to heart right now: GOD is in Heaven above; GOD is on Earth below. He's the only God there is.
- Eugene Peterson
The Latin words humus , soil/earth, and homo , human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.
- Eugene Peterson
The Lord said unto me, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
- Eusebius of Caesarea