Earth Beauty Bible Quotes

Our failure is not that we chose earth over heaven: it is that we fail to see the divine in the earth, already active and working, pouring forth grace and spilling glory into our lives. Artists, whether they are professed believers or not, tap into this grace and glory. There is a "terrible beauty" operating throughout creation. If Christ announced his postresurrection reality into the darkness, even into hell, as the Bible and Christian catechism suggests, then, as theologian Abraham Kuyper put it, there is not one inch of earth that Christ does not call "Mine! ~ Makoto Fujimura

God famously doesn't afflict Job because of anything Job has done, but because he wants to prove a point to Satan. Twenty years later, I am sympathetic with my first assessment; to me, in spite of the soft radiant beauty of many of its passages, the Bible still has a mechanical quality, a refusal to brook complexity that feels brutal and violent. There has been a change, however. When I look at Revelation now, it still seems frightening and impenetrable, and it still suggests an inexorable, ridiculous order that is unknowable by us, in which our earthly concerns matter very little. However, it not longer reads to me like a chronicle of arbitrarily inflicted cruelty. It reads like a terrible abstract of how we violate ourselves and others and thus bring down endless suffering on earth. When I read And they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds, I think of myself and others I've known or know who blaspheme life itself by failing to have the courage to be honest and kind - and how then we rage around and lash out because we hurt. When I read the word fornication, I don't read it as a description of sex outside legal marriage: I read it as sex done in a state of psychic disintegration, with no awareness of one's self or one's partner, let alone any sense of honor or even real playfulness. I still don't know what to make of much of it, but I'm inclined to read it as a writer's primitive attempt to give form to his mor ~ Mary Gaitskill

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms. ~ Ellen G. White

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue. ~ Ken Ham

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Their is beauty everywhere on earth. ~ Josef Skvorecky

Beauty cannot possibly be youth alone:
that is like earth stopping at autumn and saying
that is enough.

- I want to see all of you ~ Ashley Asti

If you examine the Bible daily, you find the beauty of being. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know ~ John Keats

An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness. ~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The power of beauty may move more than a heart. Beauty can move heaven and earth. ~ Debasish Mridha

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight. ~ Gertrude Jekyll

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

Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible. ~ John Hagee

I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says. ~ Paul Broun

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth. ~ Marston Morse

In travel, in the beauty of nature, we touch the eternity - the beauty of our soul. ~ Amit Ray

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat. ~ Lillian Hellman

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. ~ Paul Watson

True Christianity finds all of its doctrines in the Bible; true Christianity does not deny any part of the Bible; true Christianity does not add anything to the Bible. For many centuries the Bible has been the most available book on the earth. It has no hidden purpose. It cannot be destroyed. ~ Billy Graham

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible. ~ John Ortberg

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

Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it ~ Yuri Gagarin

You know that passage in the Bible that says, "And the meek shall inherit the Earth"? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, "And the geek shall inherit the Earth. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Beauty and sadness always go together. ~ George MacDonald

If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn't want to say anything. ~ Ron Shock

Strange how the perspective changes with the point of view, isn't it? Most people who claim to believe in the Bible don't actually know what it says ~ Karl Wiggins

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty was worth
Its every sorrow, mind's fading or World's ending,
As darkness covered the garden that is the earth. ~ Hayden Carruth

Genesis 8:22
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease. ~ The Holy Bible ESV

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction. ~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself. ~ Jonathan Clements

The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible. ~ D. A. Carson

Trees are the earth's example of beauty, duty, wisdom and happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth. ~ Clayton Christensen

God's Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman. ~ Elizabeth George

The earth is a mosaic, and most fail to notice the gossamer tesserae floating down from the realm of the mind that form its images of beauty and horror. ~ Lawren Leo

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers. ~ Rick Warren

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. ~ James Weldon Johnson

The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for its work in the world, and that serious study of it can and should become one of the places where, and the means by which, heaven and earth interlock and God's future purposes arrive in the present. ~ N. T. Wright

There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one's dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded one's life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of. ~ Josef Skvorecky

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity. ~ John Piper

Earth walks on Earth, Glittering in gold; Earth goes to Earth, Sooner than it wold; Earth builds on Earth, Palaces and towers; Earth says to Earth, Soon, all shall be ours. ~ Walter Scott

Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Let us make the earth peaceful to enjoy the joy and beauty of spring. ~ Debasish Mridha

Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring to bear against this Book, and yet the Bible stands absolutely unshaken today. At times almost all the wise and great of the earth have been pitted against the Bible, and only an obscure few for it. Yet it has stood. ~ R.A. Torrey

Some call ships, infantry or horsemen
The greatest beauty earth can offer;
I say it is whatever a person
Most lusts after. ~ Sappho

But here the correlation with Beauty and the Beast ends. In the fable, the beauty kisses the beast. In the Bible, the beauty does much more. He becomes the beast so the beast can become the beauty. Jesus changes places with us. We, like Adam, were under a curse, but Jesus "changed places with us and put himself under that curse" (Gal. 3:13). ~ Max Lucado

You ought to pray and read the Bible concurrently. You cannot pray effectively without reading the Bible and the vice versa. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's natural to be skeptical of a story like Noah. However, the greatest miracle in the Bible is not Noah and the flood. The greatest miracle in the Bible is recorded in the first verse: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." If that miracle is true, then every miracle in the Bible is at least possible (including Noah's Ark). If God created the universe, then He can do whatever He wants inside it. ~ Frank Turek

Mist in the morning is Earth's morning breath… ~ Nanette L. Avery

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return
every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers. ~ Peter Viereck

Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while as a mistake. ~ Milan Kundera

Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God. ~ R.A. Torrey

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ~ Simone Weil

Sometimes the miracle is simply His mercy. ~ Jane Johnson

What beauty would we see around us, if for just one second we could acknowledge the beauty that lies within ourselves? ~ Monica Dumont

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond. ~ Charles Baudelaire

Even non-religious folks should read the key Bible stories. It's essential for cultural literacy. Knowing these stories helps in understanding the many Biblical references in literature and art. ~ Kenneth E. Walsh

The purpose of a successful life string in reviving and surviving the beauty of nature not in dictating and directing the nature of the earth ~ J. Tisa

If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures
now that would have gotten his attention. ~ Randy Alcorn

The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on. ~ William Shakespeare

The beauty that we find in the world is a reflection of the beauty inside of us. ~ Abhijit Naskar

True Beauty

True beauty is in the way she laughs
True beauty is in her eyes
True beauty is how she acts
True beauty is inside
True beauty is unseen
True beauty is only felt
True beauty is not mean
True beauty is herself
True beauty can't be cruel
True beauty is bare
True beauty within you
True beauty is always there
True Beauty can't be covered with makeup
True beauty means true love
True beauty can't be baked up
True beauty is the flight of a dove
True beauty has no flaws
For True beauty is all that matters after all...
Even in the moon light your beauty will shine... ~ Jean Pullman

We will continue talking about the beauty of the deserts as long as the forests exist on Earth! But when the last forest is gone, no beauty of deserts will remain too! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you cannot find beauty in the midst of ugliness to find heaven on earth, you will not be able to find heaven in space. ~ Debasish Mridha

Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strengthb of my heart and my portion forever. ~ Bible

the more we dig into the bible the deeper our faith gets ~ Stuart Bodin

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world. ~ Petrarch

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth. ~ Francis Of Assisi

The real beauty of life is in orderliness. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The Holy Bible is the greatest book. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You turn dark shadows into canopies of hope and dry grass into gold.
My heart is spoiled and my breath consumed when the beauty of earth
gives a glimmer of understanding to the beauty of You. ~ Amy Litzelman

I follow Plato only with my mind
Pure beauty strikes me as a little thin
A little cold, however beautiful.
I am in love with what is mixed and impure
Doubtful, dark and hard to disencumber
I want beauty I must dig for, search for.
Pure beauty is beginning and not end
Begin with the sun and drop from sun to cloud
From cloud to tree, and from tree to earth itself
And deeper yet to the earth dark root.
I am in love with what resists my loving
With what I have to labor to make live. ~ Robert Francis

Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible. ~ Craig S. Keener

There's too much beauty upon this earth
For lonely men to bear. ~ Richard Le Gallienne

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. ~ Dan Savage

Niagara Falls is the hanging tongue on the face of the earth, drooling endlessly over its own beauty. ~ Vinita Kinra

The Bible is a fountain of life, an instruction on how God want you to live a life on earth. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

2 Timothy 3:16 ALL Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. ~ Bible Verses

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose. ~ John Shelby Spong

One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible. ~ Charlie Campbell

These Bibles included the Unrighteous Bible, so called from a printer's error which caused it to proclaim, in I Corinthians, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the Kingdom of God?"; and the Wicked Bible, printed by Barker and Lucas in 1632, in which the word not was omitted from the seventh commandment, making it "Thou shalt commit Adultery." There were the Discharge Bible, the Treacle Bible, the Standing Fishes Bible, the Charing Cross Bible and the rest. ~ Terry Pratchett

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed. ~ Blaise Pascal

The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the light of scientific research before. Everyone regarded the earth as spherical and as freely floating in space though the Bible tells a different story. ~ Paul Feyerabend

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. ~ Plato

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. ~ Amy Grant

It is the search for beauty ... That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth
gods and men
and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand
beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

BIBLE: Basic Information Before Leaving Earth ~ Jenny Shine

People give up the earth for beauty. ~ Esther M. Friesner

I study the Bible constantly. I teach the Bible. You know, I'm a Bible conductor, and I have a lot of people studies. But also, I see how small things really help people to get over humps in their life. Gives them direction. ~ George Benson

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. ~ Pat Robertson

How can you introduce error into the Bible? Have a human open it. The moment he reads it, the Bible because weighted down with his biases and expectations. ~ Dennis Garvin

I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth ~ Pope Benedict XVI

The leaves of the trees will stroke your cheeks, The wind will blow through your chest and cleanse your soul, The magical sounds of the earth, animals and the elements will hug your ears, The positive vibrations of the earth will fall asleep next to your heart and the breathtaking beauty of the earth will ease your mind. If you allow it, the earth, in itself, will heal you. ~ Julia McCann

Set thy house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." ~ Isaiah 38:1 ~ Bible

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. ~ Lafcadio Hearn