Earthly Concerns Quotes

It must not be supposed that the Church so concentrates her energies on caring for souls as to overlook things which pertain to mortal and earthly life.

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.

To be saved is here, local and mortal

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.