Quotes About World

We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule, and where all children have the same chance to thrive, no matter where theyre born.

For those of us who believe in the value of every human life, there isnt any more inspiring work under way in the world today.

I say I love writing, but really it is thinking I love- that rush of thoughts- new connections in the brain being made. And it comes out of the blue. In such moments: I feel such love of the world, love of thinking...

The reason the world's so fucked up is we're undergoing evolution. And the reason our institutions, our traditional religions are all crumbling is because they're no longer relevant

The local-church thinker says, "We are building a great church." The kingdom thinker says, "We are taking the rule of Christ to the world.

The reason the church has not changed the world is not just because of warfare with the world, the flesh, and the devil. Blame goes to the good guys as well, for the evangelical church has failed to produce a healthy product.

This is the real work of the pastor, and no secular methodologies will help him do it. That calls for the supernatural work of God's Spirit, to interest people in being disciples, learning how to reproduce and reach the world for Christ.

Heaven is filled with absolute, perfect, confidence in God. This world is filled with absolute mistrust. And you and I will always reflect the nature of the world we are most aware of.

Philippians understood very well Paul's charge about being citizens of another world. Paul spoke, not about going to heaven some day, but about living as citizens of heaven today…specifically from heaven toward earth.3 We have the privilege of representing heaven in this world, so that we might bring a manifestation of heaven to this world.

Jesus gave people the right to disbelieve it all if there was no demonstration of power upon His ministry. I hunger for the day when the Church will make the same statement to the world. If we're not doing the miracles that Jesus did, you don't have to believe us.

PRAYER Holy Spirit, help me to welcome the unusual and supernatural. These are the very things that the world longs for.

One of the great privileges of living in the affluent parts of the modern world is that we've been able to forget that the natural world even exists...a great city seems to produce wealth out of thin air. This is illusion, of course, but powerful illusion.

What do we see God doing? What is He doing in our church? What is God doing in our community? What is He doing around the world? How can we participate in what He is doing?

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right. Not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom—here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

It's the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.