Quotes About World

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

At which the Emperor rejoycing, made her his Wife, and gave her an absolute power to rule and govern all that World as she pleased.

We are all—even young lovers—affected by our own struggle for survival and by our world's assumptions regarding what is correct and successful. Not one of us, not even a heroine, escapes the constraint.

Heart cannot think what outrage and what cries, with black smoke and flashing fire, the beast threw forth, turning the whole world to darkness.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

We can't change this world, but we can change ourselves so that we can be of service to this world.

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.

We have engrossed to ourselves, in a time when other powerful nations were paralysed by barbarism or internal war, an altogether disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us.

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

When, suddenly, on an ordinary Wednesday, it seemed to Barney that the world tilted and ran downhill in all directions, he knew he was about to be haunted again.

The poet W.H. Auden wrote that people come in two varieties: Utopians, who imagine the perfect world in the future, and Edenists, who, if life is not perfect now, believe it once was in the past.

You don't adopt a single child, you adopt the pain of the world. It's a litmus test of your incapacity.

How can this beautiful world contain such ugliness as I have seen?

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.

Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed, that's all who ever have.

The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

Can we apply this expression to our own belief in the reality of God in our lives and our world? As