Earthliness

It convicts them of the want of love, gratitude, and all high desires after God: it reveals the stupor and earthliness which is still upon the soul. ❋ 1808-1892 (1847)

This Advent, our spiritual imagination replaces earthliness with holiness. ❋ Sheldon C. Good (2010)

There is a love sublime in its earthliness which leads her to find something like absolution in the very greatness of the surrender and glory in ❋ Unknown (2007)

But I had rather she had more earthliness and wile than be the pawn of Venice. ❋ Lawrence Turnbull (N/A)

One of our poets claims that there is something of earthliness in the kisses of all but children: -- ❋ Wilfrid Ch��teauclair (N/A)

Only the first and last verses of that exquisite hymn; but like "angels with their sparkling lyres," her voice seemed to have lost its earthliness, and soared, as if it were winged, up to the very gate of heaven. ❋ Various (N/A)

Her love was veiled, as it were, in a most delicate, most diaphanous mist, which took from it all earthliness, and left it intangible, magical as some gift from fairyland. ❋ Kathlyn Rhodes (N/A)

There is no passion hovering on the border-land of crime, or defiling its garments with the dust of earthliness. ❋ Various (N/A)

It was thought to reveal His earthliness; it is now seen to unveil His glory. ❋ John Henry Jowett (N/A)

Jessonda is accompanied by her women through the Portuguese camp, to wash away in the floods of the Ganges the last traces of earthliness. ❋ Charles Annesley (N/A)

So said the multitude, and so say I, although I scarce can hope it; for who shall dare to think that Heaven will grant its benediction on a compact steeped in earthliness, and formed without one heavenward view! ❋ Various (N/A)

Celestial is not only the Christian's heaven, but also the state of those who, having escaped from earthliness, having conquered animalism and risen into the freedom of the spirit, breathe the air and enjoy the companionship of the sons of God. ❋ Amory H. Bradford (N/A)

Unquestionably, there was a strong element of earthliness, a dilution of the pure essence of his affection, in much that Petrarch wrote. ❋ Various (N/A)

That eternal voice preaching through all our temporal interests is to us the solemn, never-ceasing protest against worldliness, earthliness, vanity, living for time, living for the body; and, above all, against every impure or ungodly method of attempting to secure our temporal aims. ❋ Knowles King (N/A)

Priestess, wife, and mother, there she ministers daily in holy works of household peace, and by faith and prayer and love redeems from grossness and earthliness the common toils and wants of life. ❋ Various (N/A)

A cloud swept up over the gorgeous earthliness of the great Rubens picture, and from out its folds shone sweet and smiling angel faces, looking down upon the scene. ❋ Mrs. William T. Savage (N/A)

So he probably is; but Simmons's two hundred pounds of earthliness did not suit your sentimentality quite as readily as the little fairy who always wore such clean pantalets and never tore her pretty white frocks in a game of romps. ❋ Various (N/A)