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"The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity."
"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
"It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world."
"We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap."
"I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do."
"To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me."
"It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching."
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"What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?"
"Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure."
"The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth."
"On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth."
"What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?"
"If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses."
"Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety."
"My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth."
"The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles."
"It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence."
"What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?"
"Just because you are going to Heaven doesn't mean you have Heaven established in you. Success is Heaven on earth."
