World Quotes - Page 77

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.

It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

The world is a living image of God.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.