#earthly

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. ↗

— Plato

#combat #conflict #earthly #every #exhort

A Spiritual Samaritan lives knowing that if we were to leave this world tomorrow, we were the best humans we could be and we touched the lives of as many souls as possible. We are not asked to be perfect. We are asked to make a difference. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#earthly-angel #good-samaritan #making-a-difference #pay-it-forward #spiritual-samaritan

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual? ↗

— Robert Barclay

#any #art #earthly #first #how

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. ↗

— Sai Baba

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It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#blessings #bound #certainly #christian #duty

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning! ↗

— Nafisa Joseph

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I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. ↗

— Jules Massenet

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It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown. ↗

— Diana Cooper

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