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    William Blake
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    Isaiah 55:8-9 , Matthew 5:43-48 , 1 John 4:7-11, Romans 13:8-10, Psalm 36:5-7
    And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Psalm 148:3-5, Genesis 9:13, Psalm 104:24, Isaiah 40:26, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Romans 1:20
    I asked the earth, I asked the sea and the deeps, among the living animals, the things that creep. I asked the winds that blow, I asked the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars and to all things that...

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    Hildegard of Bingen
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    Hebrews 2:14-15, Psalm 139:13-14, Romans 8:22, Colossians 1:16, John 1:14
    The earth is at the same time mother. She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. The earth of human kind contai...

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    John of Damascus
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    The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.

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    Wendell Berry
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    The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

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    Anne Lamott
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    1 John 1:9, James 5:16, Romans 12:17-18, Mark 11:25, Luke 6:37, Colossians 3:13
    Earth is Forgiveness School. You might as well start at the dinner table. That way, you can do this work in comfortable pants.

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does n...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Matthew 6:33, Colossians 3:1-2, Mark 8:36, Philippians 3:20, 1 Timothy 6:7, Hebrews 11:10
    Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

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    Don Everts
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    First, God placed humans here on earth to work the land where we are standing. The Hebrew here literally means to “serve” the land, implying that we humans are designed to serve the place where we liv...

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    Rudyard Kipling
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    God gave all men all the earth to love but, since our hearts are so small, ordained for each, one spot to be beloved over all.

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    Peggy Noonan
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    The life of people on earth is obviously better now than it has ever been—certainly much better than it was 500 years ago when people beat each other with cats. This may sound silly but now and then w...

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    Randy Alcorn
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    He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he's moving daily toward his...

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    Kathleen R. Fischer
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    Because humor brings us back to earth, it helps us to use well what is left to us even when we are keenly aware of what we have lost or been denied. Only those who know how to weep can also laugh hear...

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    Alfred Lord Tennyson
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    Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.”

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    Nick Vujicic
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    You and I were put on this earth to serve something greater than our narrow interests. When our focus becomes self-centered instead of God-centered we lose our greatest source of power. Our God-given ...

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    Jonathan Edwards
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    There is no man upon the earth who isn’t earnestly seeking after happiness, and it appears abundantly by the variety of ways they so vigorously seek it; they will twist and turn every way, ply all ins...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a fire?"

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    Charles R. Swindoll
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    A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Genesis 1:1, Job 38:4-7, Psalm 24:1-2
    Among the hills a meteorite Lies huge; and moss has overgrown And wind and rain with touches light Made soft, the contours of the stone. Thus easily can Earth digest A cinder of sidereal fire, And ...

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    Marlena Graves
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    On this earth, then, in our deserts, God personally reveals and names himself. When he does so, his pleasure floods our senses, his beauty engulfs us, and our God-misconceptions are devastated. He mov...

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    Hannah More
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    The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast; a pilgrim panting for the rest to come; an exile, anxious for his native home.

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    J. Paul Getty
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    The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

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    James I. Packer
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    Hearts on earth may say in the course of a joyful experience, ‘I don’t want this ever to end.’ But invariably it does. The hearts of those in heaven say, ‘I want this to go on forever.’ And it will. T...

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    Hans Urs von Balthasar
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    In the “new heaven and the new earth” nothing that has ever been done or suffered in true self-abandonment will be lost. . . . All the treasures of the world will be brought into it. But they will be ...

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God; he is nourished by unfailing fountains and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power.

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    Andrew Murray
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    During the life of Jesus on earth, the word He chiefly used when speaking of the relations of the disciples to Himself was: “Follow me.” When about to leave for heaven, He gave them a new word, in whi...

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    Christopher L. Webber
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    John 1:1-14, Galatians 4:4-5, Isaiah 60:1-2, Titus 2:13, Revelation 1:7, Hebrews 13:5
    Christ came to earth in the past, but Christ comes to us now in prayer and sacrament and human need, and he will come again at the end of the world.

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    Eugenia Price
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    Galatians 2:20, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Romans 8:9-11, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 2 Corinthians 3:2-3, James 2:14-17, John 15:4-5
    God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

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    James I. Packer
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    Luke 2:1-7, John 1:14, Luke 1:26-38, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:22-35, Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 2:13-15
    The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fic...

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    James I. Packer
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    Hearts on earth say in the course of a joyful experience, “I don’t want this ever to end.” But it invariably does. The hearts of those in heaven say, “I want this to go on forever.” And it will. There...
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