World Quotes - Page 466

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).

The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

In truth, the more we lean into life, the more we authentically interact with the world, the brighter our flame.

It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.

All evangelists want to do is share a message about the forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God. But our world is confused by the confidence we have in the gospel, and is threatened by it. Satan, I am sure, causes those things to echo in the world to increase this sort of common confusion.

Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their own epistemology. But this is not New Testament preaching. We have a message that is not from this world; it is from God. We don't know it by our own cleverness; we know it because God has revealed it.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don't let anyone pinch me, because I don't want to wake up.

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

Let's make something happen to this world.

I think each human being wants to make their mark on the world in whatever way they can, and maybe everyone has a slight egomaniac inside of them.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human being, practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit.

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.