Quotes About World

Health is infinite and expansive in mode, and reaches out to be filled with the fullness of the world; whereas disease is finite and reductive in mode, and endeavors to reduce the world to itself.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy.

All the art of the old Japanese painters (who in almost all periods were monks) is explained if it is understood that, for them, the visible world was a perpetual allusion to Wisdom, like that great tree which, with unutterable majesty, says No to evil for us' (ibid.).

LE MYTHE DE SISYPHE is dense, epigrammatic, and of a deceptive clarity. It looks like a short essay, without technical jargon, cryptic sometimes to a fault. In it, Camus spoke of the world, history, and of his life.

La générosité est un geste sans limites que l'âme du monde ressent à chaque instant. La Confession de Massoud

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Modern world history began with the discovery of the Self and attained its summit in the eventual awareness of the Absolute Self.

Why did you vanish Into empty sky? Even the fragile show, When it falls, Falls in this world.

Q: Why do you blog? A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequently updated and more interactive (as well as that bit more interesting, I hope), but also because I think the world des-perately needs to hear my opinions, and I like to oblige.

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Gdyby wszystkie narody miaÅ'y nagle upomnie? siÄ™ o terytoria, gdzie ?yli ich praprzodkowie tysiÄ…ce lat wczeÅ›niej, Å›wiat staÅ'by siÄ™ domem wariatów".

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.

What we also need is a constructive overarching vision of Christian engagement in today's advanced modern world, one that is shaped by faith in God and a Christian perspective rather than by current wisdom, and one that can inspire Christians to move out with courage to confront the best and worst that we may encounter.

The Christianization of the modern world is leading to the modernization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus. Similarly, as we shall see, the Christianization of America has led to the Americanization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus.

the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.

Our task is to focus on our individual callings in engaging with the world, to trust that others are following theirs too, and to leave to God the masterminding of the grand outcome.

In losing God the Western world had lost its soul and its center. It had become "weightless"—groundless, centerless, meaningless, insignificant and immaterial, with an "unbearable lightness of being.

The Christian faith contributed to the rise of the modern world, but the Christian faith has been undermined by the modern world it helped to create. The Christian faith thus becomes its own gravedigger.