Earthly

The Garden of Earthly Delights is full of earthly joys alongside grotesqueries, monstrosities, and torture.

(For many walke, of whome I haue told you often, and now tell you euen weeping, that they are the enemies of the crosse of Christ: / Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glorie is in their shame, who minde earthly things.)

The shadows of earth and earthly things, resting omen-like upon the waters, alone shewed which was the home and which the mirror of the celestial host.

Where it had been left hundreds of years ago, / Extract from the depth, is but a setting sun, / Paradise is scarce in this light that won’t shine, / What is our earthly task, but a worthy design?

We have this […] treasure in frail, brittle, and earthly vessels.

There is no earthly way, I mean no way on earth, that I will ever do that.

The pressures of politics and war seem remote on this lovely stretch of California coastline, but last week there was no earthly way to avoid them.

In fiscal terms, there’s no earthly reason for Congress to be stingy with Social Security’s administrative budget.