In terms of actual skill, there's an insurmountable gap.

If you're comin' at me from the heavens and earth, I've got something for you both!

Aye! The difference in their skills are like night and day, but it seems like Gildarts has taken a liking to Natsu.

We may have the same title, but compared to Master Makarov, it's like the difference between Heaven and Earth. Oh.

He is vastly more experienced in real combat.

The difference between a romantic kiss and a friendly one is difference between day and night!

We are only allowed to stay temporarily in the space between the sky and earth, clinging hard not to be shaken off...

Of course, the difference between the bench and the prodigy was like that between heaven and earth.

And with a body of my very own, I shall defy both heaven and earth.

Dogs like you should stay flat on the ground. Yet you dare to fly in the heavens, where the king dwells?

Clothing is the world!