Witty, brilliant and generous in both his wisdom and earthly belongings you are forever in our hearts as the hero you were and that we were blessed to have in our lives for so long.
He was a young man full of earthly vigor who had a wisdom of his own, and may the earth in which he rests, not far from here, lie light on his bones, and bring the news, each year, of the return of the sun and of the frost".
It might be wrong to ask Francis to be Superman, with X-ray vision and the wisdom of Krypton, or some other place that isn't earthly.
To imagine a Chelm — the town inhabited, according to Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, entirely by fools — requires a presumption of general wisdom elsewhere, as the proper imagining of Heaven requires an earthly realm of sorrow.
It is the better part of wisdom, the tradition suggests, for mortals to make the most of earthly life before they are carried off into death's long exile.
"Wisdom" is a woman in heavenly light flanked by a skulking Hercules, with earthly riches at her feet; it is inscribed "Omnia Vanitas".
Earthly Mission: The Catholic Church and World Development.
Earthly mediation has stumbled.
