Quotes about Earth
Do you not know this, that from time immemorial, Since man was first set on earth, The joy of the wicked has been brief?… Though evil is sweet to his taste, His food in his bowels turns to venom within him.
— Harold S. Kushner
Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.
— Philip Schaff
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
We are in a time when thinking rightly is more important than ever. The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.
— Dallas Willard
We are meant to exercise our "rule" only in union with God, as he acts with us. He intended to be our constant companion or coworker in the creative enterprise of life on earth. That is what his love for us means in practical terms.
— Dallas Willard
In our spiritual disintegration we may not be able to rule the earth, but we now have the power several times over to ruin it utterly.
— Dallas Willard
He is going to create a community of loving, creative, intelligent, loyal, faithful, and powerful human beings, and they are going to rule the earth. It is going to come to pass. If you want to be a part of that, just get on board.
— Dallas Willard
But I would have a darkness in my mind like the dark the dead calf makes for a time on the grass where he lies, and will make in the earth as he is carried down. May all dead things lie down in me and be at peace, as in the ground.
— Wendell Berry
Why do the health of the body and the health of the earth decline together?
— Wendell Berry
A music attends the things of the earth. To sense that music is to be near the possibility of health and joy.
— Wendell Berry
What I am sure of is that we have lost the old apprehension of Nature as a being accessible to imagination, linking Heaven and Earth, making and informing the incarnate creation, and requiring of humanity an obedience at once worshipful, ethical, and economic.
— Wendell Berry
What men know and presume about the earth is part of it, passing always back into it, carried on by it into what they do not know. Even their abuses of it, their diminishments and dooms, belong to it.
— Wendell Berry