Quotes About World

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;The truth is great, and shall prevail,When none cares whether it prevail or not.

For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote: I give you the world. Have fun blowing it up.

Today we have different idols. . . We have trusted in human reason, science, and technology to solve our problems and progress toward a better world and a prosperous life. Yet idolatry brings death.

the biblical story does not encourage anyone to feel detached from, or somehow superior to, this world of space and time and matter.

The world of the Bible is our world, and its story of redemption is also our story. This story is waiting for an ending—in part because we ourselves have a role to play before all is concluded. We must therefore pay attention to the continuing biblical story of redemption.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

And the church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

Fuimos creados para ser ejemplos vivientes del amor de Dios para un mundo que sufre.

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

I always wondered about men who spent their time trying to anticipate and know a fish in a world where man's knowledge of each other could only be called scarce. It just seemed to be gratuitously ignorant for any man to think that he could think like a fish.

In a perfect cinematic world we would've captured the bad guys in spectacular fashion with explosions, car chases, and a parting kiss. She would've been played by Ava Gardner, and I would've been played by Robert Taylor.

had that feeling, not so much that I was falling, but that the world was receding.

If money makes the world go round, it's humor that keeps it from spinning out of control.

Everything, he decided, was almost unbearably sad. Life was wonderful, but nobody seemed to know what to do with it, and the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists.

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

It wasn't enough that William S. Sessions had taken on Mogilevich, the most feared mobster in the world, as a client. Sessions's successor as FBI director, Louis Freeh, was also working for the Russians.

The church is missionary by nature because God through the Spirit calls, creates, and commissions the church to communicate to the world that the redemptive reign of God has broken into human history.

Mission (if it is biblically informed and validated) means our committed participation as God's people, at God's invitation and command, in God's own mission within the history of God's world for the redemption of God's creation."4

It focuses on the sending character of God: God is a missionary God who sent Jesus into the world, and through the sending of the Spirit by the Father and the Son, the church is sent into the world to participate in God's mission.

Lillian Ross, who often wrote about Robin Williams in The New Yorker, said this about the comedian in 2018: "Robin was a genius, and genius doesn't produce normal men next door who are good family men and look after their wives and children. Genius requires its own way of looking at and living in the world, and it isn't always compatible with conventional ways of living.