Quotes About World

Because Christ was of Ruth's posterity. The Holy Ghost thought fit to take particular notice of that marriage of Boaz with Ruth, whence sprang the Saviour of the world. We may often observe it, that the Holy Spirit who indited the Scriptures, often takes notice of little things, minute occurrences, that do but remotely relate to Jesus Christ. Secondly

He uses the world as if he used it not, 1 Cor. 7. 31.

I'm the champion of the whole world," Cassius said, "and I want to meet the people I'm champion of.

The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.

Some of the world's violent conflicts are mainly economic, territorial or tribal. But many seem to come, at least in part, from conflicts between the belief systems of different groups.

Events in the world affect us only through our interpretations of them, so if we can control our interpretations, we can control our world.

The third-century Persian prophet Mani preached that the visible world is the battleground between the forces of light (absolute goodness) and the forces of darkness (absolute evil).

We are well-armed for battle in a Machiavellian world of reputation manipulation, and one of our most important weapons is the delusion that we are non-combatants.

but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death really means anymore. Maybe that was the point. Maybe this is an object lesson about the arrogance of our assumptions. Hard to say. But the world? She didn't change. She healed. We stopped hurting her and she began to heal. You can see it all around. The whole world is a forest now. The air is fresher. More trees, more oxygen.

Well, maybe that would have happened if the world hadn't ended. It did. The world ended. On a friday.

The world's clock had run down, and haste was irrelevant.

I was a monster before the Fall and I'm a monster now. A different kind of monster, sure, but then again it's a different world.

Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires

I'm in love with the modern worldMassachusetts when it's late at nightAnd the neon when it's cold outsideI've got the radio on

Imagination is what convinces us that there's more to the world than meets the eye. And isn't that the first principle of faith?

Until our global institutions take a stand against the teaching and preaching of hate, all their efforts of diplomacy and military intervention will fail. Ultimately the responsibility is ours. Tomorrow's world is born in what we teach our children today.

throughout the contemporary world, the more religious the group the higher its birth rate, and we see the power of religion to sustain community over time.

By the first century, a complete system of universal, compulsory education was in place, an achievement the Talmud attributes to Yehoshua b. Gamla (Bava Batra 21a), the first of its kind anywhere in the world.

What the secularists forgot is that Homo sapiens is the meaning-seeking animal. If there is one thing the great institutions of the modern world do not do, it is to provide meaning.

Wisdom tells us how the world is. Torah tells us how the world ought to be. Wisdom is about nature. Torah is about will.

Functionally, a priest in the ancient world was one who could read and write. A kingdom of priests is therefore a nation of universal literacy.

If God created the world, then his existence must be compatible with the world. If he created human intelligence, his existence must not be an insult to the intelligence. If the greatest gift he gave humanity was freedom, then religion could not establish itself by coercion.

Katharine Hepburn said it best. 'Nature', she says majestically to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, 'is what we are put in this world to rise above.' The

Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world.