Quotes about Earth

In other words, the path to glory for God's incarnate representative on earth was the path through suffering. The path to majesty was through meekness. The path to exaltation was through humility. The path to power was through weakness.

So we can go deeper than Mather's point. Behind God's commitment to reign as king is the deeper foundational commitment that his glory will one day fill the earth (Num. 14:21; Ps. 57:5; 72:19; Isa. 11:9; Hab. 2:14).

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

A wise purpose underlay every act of Christ's life on earth. Everything He did was important in itself and in its teaching.

The claim so often put forth, that Christ changed the Sabbath, is disproved by His own words. In His sermon on the mount He said: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

By the word of God ...the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." 2 Peter 3:5-7. Another storm is coming. The earth will again be swept by the desolating wrath of God, and sin and sinners will be destroyed.

There is salvation for us, and why do we stay away from the fountain? Why not come and drink that our souls may be refreshed, invigorated, and may flourish in God? Why do we cling so closely to earth? There is something better than earth for us to talk about and think of. We can be in a heavenly frame of mind.

If you are to be saints in heaven, you must first be saints upon the earth.

It was on the earth that the love of God was revealed through Christ. It is on the earth that His children are to reflect this love through blameless lives.

For six thousand years, Satan has struggled to maintain possession of the earth. Now God's original purpose in its creation is accomplished.