Quotes about Earthly

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

Augustine explains: The flesh needs many things even for this life, and this, too, it seeks from God, because not only spiritual things but also earthly things are to be sought from no one but God.

Many devout Christians accepted that unbiblical cosmology, opting for a detached spirituality (a heavenly-mindedness with a questionable earthly use) and an escapist eschatology (leaving the world and going to heaven).

It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).

Of what earthly value is Christianity if it leaves no indelible mark on one's lifestyle? It is of no value (in this life) to be Christian if you do not think Christianly--if you do not have a Christian life view.

You have only two choices: an "on earth" way of thinking that is all about this right here, right now physical moment, or an "above" way of thinking that looks at life from the vantage point of the grand redemptive story and, more specifically, from the perspective of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Using your resources to help spread the gospel ensures both an earthly blessing and a heavenly reward

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.