Quotes About World

If you follow the present-day world, you will turn your back on the Way; if you would not turn your back on the Way, do not follow the world.

On the collective level, human passion, rightly directed, can change the world.

We—collective humanity—must rethink and reimagine our world and our personal lives along spiritual lines.

Responsibility is the ability to respond, which implies a larger context, a community, a world of other actors and thinkers, and God as a major player too, with intricate processes linking heaven to earth. This

We should not expect to have all the blessings of life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it.

We should not expect to have all of the blessings o life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it. ... As it is...I have come to believe that it's only by taking some of those objects away from us to which our hearts so closely cling that He endeavors....in His kindness, to draw us from this world to one of greater happiness.

From the dawn of time to the end of time, the world would never run short of cold, cold hearts.

For me the most valuable part of this kind of research, however, is just hanging out with the men and women on the job, listening to them, absorbing the atmosphere and attitudes of their world.

Many religions say to their followers, "The world is corrupt, but you can escape it." Islam said to its followers, "The world is corrupt, but you can change it." p.49.

He hated the way every drug in its different way scooped the solidity right out of the world and left it quicksand-textured, cracked across and wavering at the edges. They did the same thing to people: people on drugs stopped being what you knew them to be.

I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior.

It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.

The world tilted slightly sideways. 'I think I need to sit down.' The floor seemed like the best option. It was close and he'd already proved that he could hit it. His legs folded.

This was a place impossible for romance, a place where tea was brewed, earnestly, from paint chips, glass shards, and small change. In this world, Sean knew, one could put faith in a toe bone, a blood bone, a cartilage of eye--all the unloved contributors of one's own body world.

The world was so big! Her life story so huge in it. The stuff of movies! And yet her part in it all felt so small. One tiny stitch.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Neither let your minds be perplexed in this: all these things the nations of the world seek; and your Father which is in heaven knows 11 your need of all these things.

Je le sais désormais, en tant que lecteur, il faut faire confiance à l'auteur, au poète. Ils savent comment s'y prendre pour nous extirper de notre vie ordinaire et nous envoyer tanguer dans un autre monde dont nous n'avions même pas soupçonné l'existence. C'est ce que font les auteurs de talent. C'est ce que me fit M. Baudelaire.

La vida es la más peligrosa de las experiencias, el mundo el más peligroso de los lugares y el hombre el más peligroso de los animales.

Sócrates dijo que para que un hombre sea de valor para el mundo, ha de tener educación.

El mundo no queda nunca estático; cada año que pasa es un mundo diferente. Sin embargo, ahora que todo el mundo dice que vivimos en un mundo cambiante, creo que es una excusa para justificar los excesos.

Un hombre no debe ser enteramente del mundo, a menos que pierda su alma, ni debe ser enteramente del espíritu, a menos que pierda su humanidad.

You will remember that it was St. Augustine who said that if a man wished to improve the world about him he must make himself a better individual—which is the most gigantic task any man ever faced, and the majority fail in it.

El conocer a Dios produce un gozo inefable, pero también causa dolor. Cuando contemplo la belleza del mundo que Él ha creado, me siento embargado de tristeza porque a mí, hombre mortal, me es imposible retener ese momento de exaltación y pleno conocimiento.