Quotes About World

Whoever destroys, a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world. - Avraham Weisz (from the Talmud)

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Wolfgang Simson, Houses that Change the World; The Return of House Churches

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

Without the notion of sacred space, it is doubtful cities could ever have developed anywhere in the world.

In this wise, do we understand that there is not a spiritual universe and a material world, but rather that what appears as our world is the Word made flesh, Spirit made visible, or Consciousness expressed as idea.

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

His mental image of the artist was the novelist, who writes into being a world where everything, from a finger to the cosmos, is expressed as part of an unfolding of consciousness.

In Steinberg's world, numbers celebrate their independence, words map out the future, letters stage parades, and pedestrians are dogged by question marks.

When the end comes, I hope it's as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that we've never seen before.

It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

When you do, you realize there are six billion people wandering around, six billion chances to form connections, friendships, shared experiences." He shrugged. "If you shut yourself away from everyone and say 'I'm lonely', it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, when the rest of the world is waiting outside that door.

Minden hÅ'stett forrása a háború, a legbalgább dolog a világon.

My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Jesus felt pure and calmly thought Only the One God; Who made himself to be a god Offends his holy will. And thus the right(ness) has to shine What Mahomet also achieved; Only by the term of the One He mastered the whole world

Radi se mnogo više - i to isklju?ivo - o pitanju kako uop?e valja govoriti o Bogu pred neizmjernom poviješ?u trpljenja svijeta, 'njegovoga' svijeta. To je pitanje, kako ga ja vidim, glavno pitanje teologije; ona ga ne smije niti eliminirati niti svojim odgovorom prepuniti.

World history is the world's court.

The richest monarch in the Christian world;The sun in my own dominions never sets.

Naught so insipid in the world I find As is a devil in despair.

The truth is that you are living in a system that is pouring acid on your attention every day, and then you are being told to blame yourself and to fiddle with your own habits while the world's attention burns.

There's nothing naive about believing that concerted democratic campaigning can change the world. As the anthropologist Margaret Mead said: "It's the only thing that ever has.

After carefully analyzing all the options, Facebook's scientists concluded there was one solution: they said Facebook would have to abandon its current business model. Because their growth was so tied up with toxic outcomes, the company should abandon attempts at growth. The only way out was for the company to adopt a strategy that was "anti-growth"—deliberately shrink, and choose to be a less wealthy company that wasn't wrecking the world.

But I was going to learn that neither of these stories is true. The primary cause of all this rising depression and anxiety is not in our heads. It is, I discovered, largely in the world, and the way we are living in it. I learned there are at least nine proven causes of depression and anxiety (although nobody had brought them together like this before), and many of them are rising all around us—causing us to feel radically worse.