Quotes about Earthly

What we need is evangelicals and Catholics who discern the primary demand of our time: a celebration of our heavenly participation in the eternal Word of God. Only a heavenly minded Christian faith will do us any earthly good.

However, I am fairly confident that the extent of our eschatological transfiguration will be much more thoroughgoing than many of us suspect and that even our biblical language will literally prove infinitely inadequate to the task of describing the earthly reality that will have been transformed or divinized into our heavenly .

So the kingdom of the heavens, from the practical point of view in which we all must live, is simply our experience of Jesus' continual interaction with us in history and throughout the days, hours, and moments of our earthly existence.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

The love of heaven must drive out the inordinate love of what is earthly.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

A carnal Christian makes his or her decisions based entirely on what can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or heard.

Earthly seating creates reactionary prayers. If we sit there long enough, we will wind up with a big devil and a little God.

Spiritual battles have greater consequences than earthly wars.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity.

Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly things are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.