Salt Of The Earth Quotes

• People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

  John Piper

  People, Earth, Salt

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• Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.

  Norman Borlaug

  Home, Years, Office

  Interview with Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1997.

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• The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because we have studied its ways and adapted ourselves to it. We are relevant when we reject the world outright and are its polar opposite! This present darkness provides a great opportunity for the church to be the salt of the earth, but if we mix with the very impurities we are supposed to expose... we are as useless as our culture already believes us to be.

  Paul Washer

  Believe, Biblical, Opportunity

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• The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

  Pope Francis

  Light, World, Earth

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Lets drink to the hard working people
  Lets drink to the salt of the earth

  Mick Jagger

  Hard Work, People, Earth

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• We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.

  Vance Havner

  Mind, Salt, Ministry

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• The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Jobs, Light

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• We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can’t, it weeps.

  John Piper

  Mean, Cynical, Rotting

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• Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all creatures and pass on to them the gifts of salvation...Let yourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit to be the leaven of new life, salt of the earth and light of the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Light, Joy, Faithful

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• Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the Mount: he is the light of the world, he is the salt of the earth, he loves his enemies and gives his life for them, he is lifted up on a hill so that the world can see.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Light, Giving

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• Wonder is the salt of the earth.

  M. C. Escher

  Earth, Salt, Wonder

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• Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

  Alice Walker

  Change, White, Collaboration

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.275, Hachette UK

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• Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

  Rebecca West

  Respect, Earth, Likes

  Rebecca West (1977). “Rebecca West, a celebration”, Viking Adult

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• Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Nature, Water

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, Technology

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• But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

  John Stuart Mill

  Individuality, Earth, Salt

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.200, Hackett Publishing

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• It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

  Anthony Trollope

  Ambition, Parent, Progress

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel”, p.484, Simon and Schuster

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• They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly

  David Bowie

  Girl, Night, Play

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• Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth.

  Joe Biden

  Earth, Salt, Mike

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

  Faith Hill

  People, Parent, Southern

  "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

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• People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

  Gene Simmons

  Jobs, Hate, People

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• In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep. . . .

  Barbara G. Walker

  Mother, Dark, Wind

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• All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  Thinking, Sheep, Two

  Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (2010). “The Leopard: Revised and with new material”, p.143, Random House

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• A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases. The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life. He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth. A member of the most ancient regime in the world. One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown.

  Walter Martin

  Lying, Men, World

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• The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Humility, Humble

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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