Quotes about World

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

The destiny of mankind is not decided by material computation. When great causes are on the move in the world… we learn that we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.