Quotes About Universal

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

Everyday is a new day, it is a morning dream as a day which we don't realize but the actual day starts when we fall asleep in our conciousness and report to the universal god, the Supreme Power.

The world has been loaned to humanity by the universal powers of creation.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

Have you not made a universal shout,That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,To hear the replication of your soundsMade in her concave shores?

The self-same sun that shines upon his courtHides not his visage from our cottage, butLooks on alike.

Then everything includes itself in power,Power into will, will into appetite;And appetite, a universal wolf,So doubly seconded with will and power,Must make perforce a universal prey,And last eat up himself.

Music from the spheres.

A breath thou art,Servile to all the skyey influences.

As a writer one doesn't belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn't belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.

The unlimited Christ gives the immeasurable Spirit in order to produce a universal increase.

Yet the force developed, if you know how to make use of cosmic energy, is greater

The Divinity is so great, and of such a character, that He both sees and hears all things, is omnipotent, and attends to all things at once.

Without question, the most important practice is bodhichitta. The wish to attain enlightenment to lead all living beings to that same state... This mind of enlightenment is based on pure, great compassion, which in turn is based on pure, great love. In each case pure means impartial. Without conditions. And great means benefiting all living beings, not just the small group of those we happen to like at the moment.

but whether the Church universal will or should change its mind collectively.

The reality is that not every place claiming to be a church is part of the church universal, that many churches fail their calling. This fact forces us toward something like the old distinction between the churches that we see (the church visible) and the church that Jesus recognizes as his people (the church invisible). We may not be able to find Christ's people where we thought to look. But I am convinced that we can find them.

Thus, we strive for intimacy with the whole universe, not just with one person.