Any one of us, no matter how outcast or vile, can go boldly into the Holy of Holies on the ground of the shed blood, and the best man or woman that ever walked this earth can meet God on no other ground than the shed blood.
—R. A. Torrey
If yet your heart hangs back (from thoughts of death), consider the great advantage you will have by death above all that ever you enjoyed on earth. For your communion with God, the time of perfecting that is now come.
—John Flavel
A truthful word is more powerful than popes, bishops, kings, and all the rich men on earth.
—Leo Tolstoy
Time and space are finite in extent, but they don’t have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.
—Stephen Hawking
“The best church that ever Christ had on earth would within a few years apostatise from the truth if deserted by the Spirit of God.”
On earth Christians enjoy Christ by drops; in Heaven they shall enjoy the fullness of the ocean.
Christopher Love
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 earth laughs in flowers.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
—William Shakespeare
“The promise of harvest gives joy to the earth. Rob not your Lord of the sheaves which he deserves to gather from your heart and life; but believe his Word, rest upon it, and rejoice in it, realizing that his words of promise are meant to bring you great joy.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“But for what purpose was the earth formed?” asked Candide. “To drive us mad,” replied Martin.”
—Voltaire
Christ has appeared upon earth, and you should go to him with your doubt.
—Jonathan Edwards
Nice privacy! Nothing in life can be sweeter, more charming than solitude, especially in the face of the smiling, blossoming beauty of Mother Nature. Under its sweet magical charm, a person involuntarily plunges into himself and sees God on earth, as the poet says.
—Taras Shevchenko
It is an expression of Luther’s that ordinary works, done in faith and from faith, are more precious than heaven and earth.
—Jeremiah Burroughs