Quotes on Earth

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

The Bible says that as long as we are here on earth, we are strangers in a foreign land. There are enemies to be conquered before we return home. This world is not our home; our citizenship is in heaven.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.

Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.