Quotes about World
Someone who really respects himself and is concerned for his own soul is assured of the fact that a person living under his own supervision in the world at large lives in greater austerity and seclusion than a maiden in her lady's bower.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.
— George W. Bush
I don't know when the end of the world is, but there are people that I speak to every night, the end of their world could be tomorrow because we don't know when life will end.
— Greg Laurie
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
— Harry S. Truman
We are given this beautiful life, this beautiful world, and we destroy it with ingratitude and hate.
— Marty Rubin
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
— Aldous Huxley
Truth… never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.
— John Milton
Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds—weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.
— John Newton
When this happens, it demonstrates a divine power equal to the same divine power seen in the creation of a world. It is without question the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous to all those who are not blinded by prejudice and unbelief.
— John Newton
Jesus put it like this: You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world. Others have come before you. Others will come after you. But this is your day. If God's kingdom is to manifest itself right now, it will have to be through you. God himself will not come to take your place. You are on a mission from God.
— John Ortberg
On Christ's glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.
— John Owen
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.
— John Piper