World Quotes - Page 352

I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take for granted and enter into the ebb and flow of another culture, it certainly is one of the more valuable things that we do as human beings.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

I wonder how they deal with mice at Disney World.

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

When you trust the universe, you get to play in the magical world of God's plan.

... all of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As far as I'm concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?

To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

The greatest need in the world today is faith in God and courage to do His will.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

There are other kinds of joy found in other places in the world, but there is no place where you can find Christian joy except in Christ.

In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.

There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with its empty worship, its market-driven superficiality, and its trivial thought. It is a breeze blowing toward better, deeper, more honest things. I suspect that it is the Holy Spirit who is blowing, that this is his breeze, and that these leaves that are shaking are the signs of better things to come within an evangelical faith that is thus being reformed. Let us all pray that it is so!

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

Animism is not a belief system, but a worldview: The world is a sacred place and we are part of it. The factuality of this statement is not the issue. To say that the world is a sacred place is to make a statement about values, not facts. It’s a statement about what you mean by ‘sacred,’ just as ‘Money can’t buy happiness’ is a statement about what you mean by ‘happiness.’ To put it all very simply, animism isn’t a belief system, it’s a value system.

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?