Quotes About World

Sometimes I was incredibly frustrated and angry, wondering how these extremes could exist in the same world, let alone in the same church. Sometimes I just got cynical. That was the easiest thing to feel, as cynicism takes very little energy.

George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, wrote, "People must be led out of captivity up to God. Be patterns, be examples that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them. Then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.

I find it particularly troubling when the cross is used as a weapon to justify violence, bloodshed, and vengeance—the very stuff I'm convinced Jesus came to heal the world of.

Ignatius of Lyon said this in the second century: "Christianity is not a matter of persuasive words. It is a matter of true greatness as long as it is hated by the world.

Most of the time, he's actually kind of nice. He'd be a great boss if you didn't know about the world domination and frog stuff." "You aren't going to have a problem taking him down, are you?" "Heck, no. I know about the world domination and frog stuff.

It didn't say much for the management I'd dealt with that a psychopathic mobster with plans for world domination really was the best boss I'd ever had.

A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.

My advice: If you every have the chance to change the world, don't hesitate. Leave your great big mark.

I cut all day and I squared all night And I thought I'd mined the mountain's might Then I saw all my work by the bright dawn light The mountain was the world and my labor a mite

It was a song of celebration, of springtime, using a weighted cord to square a stone, looking up to a hawk gliding, feeling that the work was good and the whole world just right.

and curiouser. Maddie supposed she would never totally understand this nonsensical world

What do llamas smell like?" "Chkt." "Like an ancient terror ready to shed its skin and devour the world? How do you even—

I do like the world quite a lot.

Di velt iz sheyn nor di mentshn makhn zi mies," he said. "The world is beautiful, but people make it ugly.

El mundo es bello, pero la gente lo hace feo

The local paper is called the World.

I am so thankful He sees our potential among the ruins and chooses to reignite our flame when the harsh winds of life try to extinguish our fire or the pressures of this world seem to snuff out our dreams.

Trust me. The older you get, the scarier the world gets to be.

French researchers led by Ivan Matic, of the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, studied hundreds of bacteria from all over the world and found that they also went into hyperdrive, mutationally speaking, when put under stress. Although the evidence is mounting, the case of hypermutation is definitely still pending.

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

I am doing something I learned early to do, I am paying attention to small beauties, whatever I have-as if it were our duty to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world.

And I wonder if the world is not silent— to be inside of—if it groans, if it creaks as it turns.

I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.

And what is magic after all but a man's power to change the world while it is incapable of changing him? (Aubrey)