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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in order to so exist, organisms must relate to each other and to the earth itself.

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique and the difficultly explainable has been made to take the place of the common and the natural in deriving the framework of these theories.

Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up.

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

A person who keeps always his profile down-to-earth doesn't have to worry with those who surround or who to go around for he is likely to get only those who are of his ilk and the real worth on the ground.

A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

A power is passing from the earth.

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.

As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.

Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.

A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to live. Guarding others' lives, the ecology and the earth is the same as protecting one's own life. By like token, wounding them is the same thing as wounding oneself. Consequently, it is the duty of each of us to participate as members of the life community in the evolution of the universe. We can do this by guarding earth's ecological system.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

As God's representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading of the Holy Spirit, we speak as His voice on the earth. During strategic times, the Lord will prompt us to pray prayers that will bring breakthrough.

As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret.

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.

As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth so inherently worthy of respect, or invested with a right so sacred, that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment (p. 290).

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time.

As I recognized the beauty of the earth, I knew that my Heavenly Father loved me.

As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs.

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".

As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.