Quotes About World

Islam understands its mission as extending God's rule over the entire world. Practically speaking, this means that the entire world should be under Islamic rule.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

In the surface world our ability to make things happen is very limited. This limitation is a reflection of the incompleteness of a world without the spirit realm. So Spirit is our channel through which every gap in life can be filled. But the spirit realm will not take care of these gaps without our conscious participation. Thus our collaboration makes us central to the actual happening of a ritual.

As humans, we are fascinated by supernatural, spiritual power. Every moment you display this kind of power to the world, that power isolates you. You become displaced by the power you display because that power is also displaced through you. For

The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.

Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but...

the world are made of Selfishness but the biggest problem is myself

Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

Wer in der Liebe Gottes bleibt, geht nicht den vorgeschriebenen Weg der Vortrefflichkeit in der Welt, sondern eigene, unverständliche, oft törichte Wege.

Nicht von einem Naturrecht, Vernunftrecht, allgemeinen Menschenrecht aus, sondern allein vom Evangelium von Jesus Christus aus ergibt sich das richtige Verhältnis der Kirche zur Welt.

Der Mensch wird aufgerufen, das Leiden Gottes an der gottlosen Welt mitzuleiden. Er muß also wirklich in der gottlosen Welt leben und darf nicht den Versuch machen, ihre Gottlosigkeit irgendwie religiös zu verdecken, zu verklären; er muß ›weltlich‹ leben und nimmt eben darin an den Leiden Gottes teil.

Wenn Gott in Jesus Christus Raum in der Welt beansprucht, – und sei es nur in einem Stalle, weil »sonst kein Raum in der Herberge« war – so fasst er in diesem engen Raum zugleich die ganze Wirklichkeit der Welt zusammen und offenbart ihren letzten Grund.

Der Raum der Kirche ist nicht dazu da, um der Welt ein Stück ihres Bereiches streitig zu machen, sondern gerade um der Welt zu bezeugen, daß sie Welt bleibe, nämlich die von Gott geliebte und versöhnte Welt.

Der Christ hat sein Betätigungsfeld in der Welt. Hier soll er anfassen, mitschaffen und wirken, hier den Willen Gottes tun. Und darum ist der Christ nicht resignierter Pessimist, sondern einer, der freilich von der Welt weniger hofft – die Welt vergeht – der aber von Gott alles erhofft und darum also schon in der Welt freudig und heiter ist.

I hate the word 'simple'. Nobody has any business to live in the world and know nothing about its ways.

Thus, instead of gaining only an internal silence, in the common sense of the word, he gains also that strange dynamic silence which preceded creation, and from which all things come—the silence of the heart of God. This silence is the root of sound, and from it pours forth the fiat that fashioned the world. This is the dynamic silence of creation, the tremendous dramatic silence of new birth forever taking place- new worlds forever fashioning.

The Stoics were essentially pantheists, since they maintained that as there is nothing better than the world, the world is God.

After Bacchus gazed into the mirror and followed his own reflection into matter, the rational soul of the world was broken up and distributed by the Titans throughout the mundane sphere of which it is the essential nature, but the heart, or source, of it they could not: scatter.

whereas the Titans who murdered and dismembered Bacchus represent the zodiacal powers distorted by their involvement in the material world.

In the world today ideals live but a moment in their purity, before the gathering hosts of darkness snuff out the gleaming spark. The Mystery School, however, remains unmoved. It does not bring light to man, man must bring his light to it.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

The devil['s] strongest weapon is his ability to conventionalize our Thought . . . we willfully remain the humble servants of every one else's ideas except our own . . . we have made ourselves the helpless slaves of the wicked accidental world.

Pour ma part, même s'il m'était difficile de l'admettre, je menais la vie de ceux qui choisissent obstinément de mourir, mais qui espèrent que le monde se chargera de la besogne.

Norma Shearer: Mas si por miedo has de buscar en el Amor sólo paz y placer, entonces mejor será que pases de largo por su umbral, rumbo al mundo sin inviernos ni primaveras ni veranos, donde reirás, pero no a carcajadas, y llorarás, pero no todas tus lágrimas.