Quotes About World

When we make condescending judgments, or proclaim lofty words that don't translate into action, or simply speak without first listening, we fail to love — ?and thus deter a thirsty world from Living Water. The good news about God's grace goes unheard.

Prayer is a subversive act performed in a world that constantly calls faith into question.

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

Jesus gave us these stories about grace in order to call us to step completely outside our tit-for-tat world of ungrace and enter into God's realm of infinite grace.

That this world spoiled by evil and suffering still exists at all is an example of God's mercy, not his cruelty.

Grace is Christianity's best gift to the world, a spiritual nova in our midst exerting a force stronger than vengeance, stronger than racism, stronger than hate. Sadly, to a world desperate for this grace the church sometimes presents one more form of ungrace.

Christian myth, reveals the truth that the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.

He had found his vocation: to fight the Lord's battles in the Academy and the world at large.

Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.

Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the other half would lead a man to question the very place of the earth itself, safe at the center of the universe.

Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?' Yes i do. she says uncertainly.

What better way could they spend the last days of the world, than falling in love?

I stop still with the shock and fell my head swim. Richard takes my hand. We stand for a moment, handclasped as if we are clinging to each other in this new and terrifying world. We don't notice the passing servants, or the courtiers hurrying by. Richard looks into my eyes and once again I know us for the children that we were, who had to make our own destiny in a world we could not understand.

I can't think why men would believe that it is a better world where something beautiful is destroyed and something broken left in its place.

She tried to live like an ordinary woman; but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways; but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum.

Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

Qué mejor manera de pasar los últimos días del mundo que enamorándose?

We are making a new order," he said. "A new world. There is talk of the end of the authority of the Pope, the map of France and Spain is being redrawn. Everything is changing, and here we are, at the very front of the change.

There is no freedom for women in this world, fight or not as you like. See where Anne has brought herself.

When I rose up the queen was looking toward me, not as if I were a rival, but as if I were still her favorite little maid in waiting who might bring her some comfort. She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men. George

risk to my life, I could not become one of those. I was a young woman living at the very heart of a world that was starting to ask questions, living at a time when men and women thought that questions were the most important thing. And who could say where these questions might take us? The tables that had come from my father for John Dee might contain a

I am a dreamer, he concedes. I don't deny it, but I have seen enough to know the world. Perhaps my dream is of a better one.

There will be a child, but no child. There will be a king but no king. There will be a virgin queen all-forgotten. There will be a queen but no virgin. [And Lord Robert Dudley? he whispered.] He will have the making of a prince who will change the history of the world, I whispered in reply. And he will die, beloved by a queen, safe in his bed.