Quotes about World
Without Christ, on the other hand, the whole world is a shapeless chaos and frightful confusion. We
— John Calvin
And now good morrow to our waking souls,Which watch not one another out of fear;For love, all love of other sights controls,And makes one little room, an everywhere.Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
— John Donne
The World is a great Volume, and man the Index of that Booke; even in the Body of Man, you may turne to the whole world.
— John Donne
I sing the progress of a deathless soul, Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not control, Placed in most shapes; all times before the law Yoked us, and when, and since, in this I sing. And the great world to his aged evening, From infant morn, through manly noon I draw.
— John Donne
That this world's general sickness doth not lie In any humour, or one certain part; But as thou sawest it rotten at the heart, Thou seest a hectic fever hath got hold Of the whole substance, not to be controlled, And that thou hast but one way, not to admit The world's infection, to be none of it.
— John Donne
The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.
— Francis Chan
The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
— Philip Yancey
The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
— Alice Hoffman
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
— James A. Garfield
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
— Edward Brooke
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.
— CS Lewis