Quotes about World

To ignore the state of our children is to ignore the state of our world.

When we do not recognize our cosmic function, our own hearts break, and so does the heart of the world.

We need to recognize that the endless application of brute force will not bring peace to the world, and that only the soul force of justice, meaningful human relationships, forgiveness, and compassion can end the scourge of violence on our streets and throughout the world.

Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very difficult. Few of us always succeed, yet making the effort is our most noble calling. It is the world's only real chance to begin again.

We need more Spirit-empowered Christians who take seriously their call to witness to God's work in this world, and to do so in unity with other Christians, even if they don't agree on some secondary matters.

Indeed, the world is our mission field, and Jesus is our model incarnational missionary who went before us and now goes with us as we continue in his work by his Spirit as his church for his glory to our joy.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?

The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.

You may remember the old Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.