If you look at the girl's beauty, it will seem to you that there is no one better either on earth or in heaven.
Oh, how I longed to be with Christ, to be employed in the glorious work of angels, and with an angel’s freedom, vigour, and delight! And yet how willing was I to stay awhile on earth, that I might do something, if the Lord pleased, for his interest in the world!
—David Brainerd
The treasure of merit is therefore not deposited by Christ anywhere on earth, not in the hands of a pope or a priest, not in a church or a sacrament; but the treasure of merit lies solely with and in Christ himself.
—Herman Bavinck
Knowledge is power—so much we can understand, at least to a certain extent. All knowing is a triumph of the spirit over matter, a subjection of the earth to the lordship of man. But that knowledge should be life—who can understand that?
—Herman Bavinck
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
—Mark Twain
Since the fall of man the earth has been a disaster area & everyone lives with a critical emergency. Nothing is normal. Everything is wrong & everyone is wrong until made right by the redeeming work of Christ & the effective operation of the Holy Spirit.
—AW Tozer
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
—Thomas Jefferson
I longed to make some returns to God; but found I had nothing to return: I could only rejoice, that God had done the work himself; and that none in heaven or earth might pretend to share the honour of it with him.
—David Brainerd
He who has felt that Face of beauty,
Which wakes the world’s great hymn,
For one unutterable moment
Bent in love o’er him,
In that look finds earth, heaven, men and angels
Grow nearer through Him.
—Amy Carmichael
While your sins are as deep as the ocean, the atonement that swallows them up is as deep as eternity, and on the ground of Christ’s atoning death there is pardon to-night for the vilest sinner in Bingley Hall, for the vilest sinner on the face of this earth.
—R. A. Torrey
I have a Savior; though I sought
Through earth and air and sea,
I could not find a word, a thought,
To show Him worthily.
But planted here in rock and moss
I see the Sign of utmost loss;
I hear a word—On Calvary’s Cross
Love gave Himself for thee.
—Amy Carmichael
The Church lives in a hostile world. The power of the Holy Spirit is, therefore, not optional but necessary. Without it the children of God simply cannot live the life of heaven on earth.
—AW Tozer
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The treasure of merit is therefore not deposited by Christ anywhere on earth, not in the hands of a pope or a priest, not in a church or a sacrament; but the treasure of merit lies solely with and in Christ himself.
—Herman Bavinck
On our Earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.
We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love.
I want suffering in order to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every person must remember that political borders and the multitude of governmental authorities are human creations, and that before God we are all inhabitants of one and the same Earth and all subject to God’s law, not some human authority.
—Leo Tolstoy
While your sins are as deep as the ocean, the atonement that swallows them up is as deep as eternity, and on the ground of Christ’s atoning death there is pardon to-night for the vilest sinner in Bingley Hall, for the vilest sinner on the face of this earth.
—R. A. Torrey
“Oh seek to know on earth the peace of heaven, the rest of heaven, the victory of heaven, the service of heaven, the communion of heaven, the holiness of heaven; you may have foretastes of all these; seek after them.”
“Let us spend our risen life on earth as Jesus spent his,— in a greater seclusion from the world and in greater nearness to heaven than ever.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The earth is not the property of one man or even an entire generation, but of all past, present and future generations who work on it.
—Leo Tolstoy
How happy is it, when all are of one mind in a house; all agreed to entertain and love the Lord Jesus. Their heaven is begun on earth.
—George Whitefield
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
—George Washington
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
—Oscar Wilde
“If God is to write the law upon the heart, the heart must be prepared, and in order to being prepared, it must be entirely renewed by a miracle of mercy, such as can only be wrought by that omnipotent hand which made both heaven and earth.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
—Henry David Thoreau
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
—Plato