Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow man, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth.
To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.
You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.
Indonesia is one of the most scary and scared places on earth.
The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.
People seem to trust you more when you're pregnant. I think they see you as some kind of Mother Earth figure.
That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this earth, they could see that it - we are closer toward getting a separate territory in this country than the integrationists are toward getting integration.
Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.
My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it. '
I think I'm pretty down to earth.
Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round & wet & crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.