Earthly
Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise.
Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.
Made of earth; earthy.
In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.
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Earthly Quotations
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Plato
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Pope John Paul II
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Christopher Marlowe
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Fenelon
My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.
Vivien Leigh
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt
Earthly Translations
earthly in Dutch is aards, aarden
earthly in Latin is terrenus-a-um
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