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Quotes About World

Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World.
~ John Millington Synge
Truth… never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.
~ John Milton
Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides,Where thou perhaps under the whelming tideVisit'st the bottom of the monstrous world.
~ John Milton
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
~ John Milton
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.
~ John Muir
The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.
~ John Muir
The modernization of Asia will forever reshape the world as we move toward the next millennium.
~ John Naisbitt
Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds—weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.
~ John Newton
The world's esteem is but a bribe, to buy their peace you sell your own.
~ John Newton
When this happens, it demonstrates a divine power equal to the same divine power seen in the creation of a world. It is without question the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous to all those who are not blinded by prejudice and unbelief.
~ John Newton
British car strikes reduce production of Austin Allegros and Morris Marinas. Rest of world copes.
~ John O'Farrell
The most solitary is the most communal. The most inner light is a light for the world.
~ John O'Leary
This world is much too sad a place For Fannie's warm and happy smile. The feeling she feels far too deep For the endless heartless guile Of this unfriendly world." He
~ John Oliver Killens
His novel so lacks the feel and smell of barracks and of the passion of men at war that we remain unmoved, at the close, by Saunders's wistful wish "that whatever was left of the world would come to its senses and build something new and different and new and new and altogether different.
~ John Oliver Killens
On Christ's glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.
~ John Owen
Materialism has made you worship Mammon and in this material world everything comes too easily. Heat comes too easily and cold. Money comes too easily. Don't forget that it will go as easily as well. We have all grown soft from this ease. Position changes easily. Values shift elusively. When everything is totalled up we have evolved a fine variety of flushing toilets but not a very good world.
~ John P. Marquand
IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.
~ John Patrick
The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.
~ John Perkins
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
~ John Perkins
Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.
~ John Piper
It is only a matter of time till the reality of the rest of the world comes home. And all the while we are called by Christ to go to them, love them, sacrifice for them, bring the gospel to them. The Great Commission is not child's play. It is costly. Very costly.
~ John Piper
If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.9 God did not create you for this.
~ John Piper
If you have pity for perishing people and a passion for the reputation of Christ, you must care about world missions.
~ John Piper
Now comes the really amazing part. What is offered to the world, to everyone who hears the gospel, is not a love or saving achievement designed for all and therefore especially for no one; but rather, what is offered is the absolute fullness of all that Christ achieved for his elect.
~ John Piper