Quotes about World
It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse—until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted—which we feel we are sent into the world to do—what a blessing it is and what fulness of joy it holds.
— LM Montgomery
isn't it a wonderful morning? The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn't it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath—pouf! I'm so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren't you?
— LM Montgomery
Sometimes I wonder whether religion has been a curse or blessing to the world. It has much that is beautiful in it but it seems also to have caused hideous suffering
— LM Montgomery
Let the Piper come and welcome, he cried, waving his hand. I'LL follow him gladly round and round the world.
— LM Montgomery
But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.
— LM Montgomery
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.
— Jean Danielou
Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.
— Barack Obama
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
— Og Mandino
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable
— Harry S. Truman
The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath is the presence of God in the world, open to the soul of man." God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be a Jew is to affirm the world without being enslaved to it; to be a part of civilization and to go beyond it; to conquer space and to sanctify time. Judaism is the art of surpassing civilization, sanctification of time, sanctification of history. Civilization is on trial. Its future will depend upon how much of the Sabbath will penetrate its spirit.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel