World Quotes - Page 153

Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.

The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why we seem so out of sync with most of the world. Genuine faith is the isolating force in our lives that creates tension wherever we go. To put it another way, faith is the unbalancing force in our lives that is the fruit of God's disturbing presence.

He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

I want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it's actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that's the biggest sin in the world.

There are many things I don't know, but quite a few I do. I know you can't be lost if you know where you are. I know that life is full of precious and fragile things, and not all of them are pretty. I know that the sun follows the moon and makes days, one after another. Time passes. The world turns, and we turn with it, and though we can never go back to the beginning, sometimes, we can start again.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.

if the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.

How would you behave if you were the best in the world at what you do?

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

I would add a little more love in the world. It's ridiculous, I know, but it is one thing I would do.

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.

Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.

With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.