Quotes About World

world of elliptical allusions and allegory. And a lot of what they wrote was designed

Jesus came to model Sonship, and to reveal God's Fatherhood, to a world of spiritual orphans.

In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying circumstances, how civilised they could be in a harsh world, that was the measure of a man.

Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.

Truth and the hatred of truth come into our world together. As soon as truth appears, it is regarded as an enemy.

Ours is another luster, as if a soul had died outside the world and divided itself in two — Tess Gallagher, from "I Don't Know You," Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2011)

What use was her grown-up knowledge--acquired through such initiations, at such risk--in this world of infants, who had to be kept safe?

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

I ENTREAT THEE TO LET THY DIVINE EYES REST UPON A VAST NUMBER OF LITTLE SOULS, I ENTREAT THEE TO CHOOSE, IN THIS WORLD, A LEGION OF LITTLE VICTIMS OF THY LOVE.

If we allow ourselves even for a moment to contemplate the vast weight of suffering in the world, we will easily be overwhelmed with grief. This is why we develop the habit and self-protective instinct of overlooking the suffering around us.

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

With our love, we could save the world ... if they only knew.

We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out

We all need to really spread positive cause this world is corrupted...

He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober brightens up this world like the moon when freed from clouds.

Empty is the house of a childless man; as empty is the mind of a bachelor; empty are all quarters of the world to an ignorant man; but poverty is total emptiness.

Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world

My deepest fear is not that we are incompatible, My deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure of fire and fuel. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. You're playing big will not serve the world, me being prideful did not serve me. KB

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen.

The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

It is incumbent upon philosophy ... to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.