Quotes About World

Each person has the potential of making a positive impact on the world. It all depends on what you do with what you have. Success is not to be measured by the amount of money you possess or the position you attain but rather in how you use both. Position and money can be squandered or abused, but they can also be used to help others.

Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world. —John 16:33

Don't you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? —James 4:4

Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

God's answers are internal, not external. If something shows up in the world it's a symbol. Don't think that God acts in the world; He doesn't. The results of following your guidance can show up in the world as symbols of safety or abundance.

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

The world is harsh and inconsiderate, and you can rely only on your family.

the physical world is the only salvation from a mind constantly churning away at itself. At

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

Un rêve qui ne change pas les dimensions du monde est-il vraiment un rêve ?

Il semble que dans le monde intermédiaire où se mêlent rêverie et réalité, il se réalise une plasticité de l'homme et de son monde sans qu'on ait jamais besoin de savoir où est le principe de cette double malléabilité

What tragedies, what passions, what crimes had surrounded the idyll of Raoul and his sweet and charming Christine!... What had become of that wonderful, mysterious artist of whom the world was never, never to hear again?...

with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist. (The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money)

So, in God's relationship to us, we might wonder, "Am I really saved?" "Am I of the elect?" "Is God angry with me?" "Why does God allow suffering in the world?" In each case, if we leave out the Cross, questions like these can drive us to despair or insanity.

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which you realize that you are trapped in a world almost entirely devoid of reason. Laughter is how you release the anxiety you feel at this knowledge.

It is evil," the Old Wise One said. "For very long we have walked carefree in the only paradise. It would be better if all here were to die." The last Shadow child said firmly, "Nothing is worse than that I should die," and something that had wrapped the world was gone.

of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music;

This world that you and we treasure has now been driven round the sun so often that the warp and woof of its space grow threadbare and fall as dust and feeble lint from the loom of time.

The world is filled half with evil and half with good. We can tilt it forward so that more good runs into our minds, or back, so that more runs into this.

There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it in myself, and I do not believe there is another man in the world so hideously lacking in it.

Endings don't mean anything. Meanings lie where the world takes its breath, and that is always now.

the harm that's in the world now as often comes through folly as through malice.