Quotes About World

He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word.

We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.

Hope is 'that virtue by which we take responsibility for the future.' Not just responsibility for our individual futures but also for that of the world.

Oh how the world reflected you in its unending streams of atoms, churning atoms out of which significance beamed--significance, but not purpose.

Quero te dizer também que nós, as criaturas humanas, vivemos muito (ou deixamos de viver) em função das imaginações geradas pelo nosso medo. Imaginamos consequências, censuras, sofrimentos que talvez não venham nunca e assim fugimos ao que é mais vital, mais profundo, mais vivo. A verdade, meu querido, é que a vida, o mundo dobra-se sempre às nossas decisões.

Electricity was a part of the world from its creation, and therefore my Electra is as old as Daylight or Moonlight, and equally beneficent to mortals and fairies alike.

The Scarecrow was now the ruler of the Emerald City, and although he was not a Wizard the people were proud of him. "For," they said, "there is not another city in all the world that is ruled by a stuffed man." And, so far as they knew, they were quite right.

What a sad world sin had caused.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

Money makes the world go around love makes the spin worth the ride

God has His reasons for allowing this great upheaval. Maybe He's asking us to join the fight against evil and help redeem this fallen world." "I don't have enough faith for this, Papa." "None of us do. All we can do is ask Him each day what He wants us to do." She nodded, keeping her tears at bay.

Be careful what you wish for, dear. God just might move you halfway around the world someday.

Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

And his rage rises to a white heat against certain nobles of Treves who, after the city had been burned and sacked thrice, could still ask the emperors for circuses. "Where would you hold these public spectacles?" he asks, – "Over the graves and ashes, the bones and blood of the dead?" In another passage he gives us briefly the conclusion of the whole matter: "The whole Roman world is in misery and yet is luxurious. . . . It is dying and it laughs.

There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.

this country is so new to us and so old to the world, and its emptiness should have been a warning rather than an invitation—

Reading teaches us receptivity....It teaches us to receive, in stillness and attentiveness, a voice possessed temporarily, on loan....And as we grow accustomed to receiving books in stillness and attentiveness, so we can grow to receive the world, also possessed temporarily.

How dangerous it is when our souls are gasping for God but we're too distracted flirting with the world to notice.

When sin entered the world, it broke the goodness of God's design. And sin absolutely breaks God's heart. But in no way did sin affect the goodness of God. He has a plan, a good plan to rid this world of every effect of sin.

His goodness has been apparent since creation. When He formed and shaped and painted and sculpted this world and its creatures into being, His goodness seeped in with every thought and touch. "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31).

So, while there are still good things in this world, the world is no longer a perfect reflection of God's goodness.

The world's plan always leads us to places of pain, loneliness, and a deep ache for belonging that seems just out of reach.