World Quotes - Page 285

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.

It is people who pause to appreciate life and give thanks who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change our world! Love and peace to you all.

I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.

If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability

So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force.

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches .

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.