Quotes About World

To be frank, nothing has changed since The Quiet American—when we finally destroy the whole world it will be with the very best of intentions.

Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

As William Penn pointed out, "We pass through this world but once, so do now any good you can do, and show now any kindness you can show, for we shall not pass this way again.

Joseph Campbell, the renowned scholar of religion and mythology, eloquently summed up, "This is it. This is Eden. When you see the kingdom spread upon the earth, the old way of living in the world is annihilated. That is the end of the world. The end of the world is not an event to come, it is an event of psychological transformation, of visionary transformation. You see not the world of solid things but a world of radiance.

It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.

For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

For this we must believe: that the mind is never seriously aroused to desire and ponder the life to come unless it be previously imbued with contempt for the present life. Indeed, there is no middle ground between these two: either the world must become worthless to us or hold us bound by intemperate love of it.

Christ, therefore,   died for our sins, in order to redeem or separate us from the world.

I do not say with Cicero, that errors wear out by age, and that religion increases and grows better day by day. For the world (as will be shortly seen) labours as much as it can to shake off all knowledge of God

The true knowledge of God is not only to know him as the maker of the world, but also to be persuaded that the world is directed by him, and further to know the nature of that direction. He

the elegant structure of the world serving us as a kind of mirror, in which we may behold God, though otherwise invisible.

Thus even the most wicked are an example to us that throughout the world the knowledge of God has some power in the hearts of all people.

Christ cannot be seen except in the spiritual life which the world does not possess. No

Men will not turn to Christ for light until they know this world as darkness and themselves so profoundly blind. Let

Without Christ, on the   other hand, the whole world is a shapeless chaos and frightful   confusion. We

The church is compared to tents because it has no solid structure in the world. It

Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people that little else has...It is more powerful in govenments in breaking down racial barriers.

Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people that little else has. . . . It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.