Quotes about World
I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.
— Anne Graham Lotz
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
— Henry Ford
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Someone really wise once told me that even Christians aren't immune to tragedy. That we can't use this fallen world to gauge our value to God.
— Terri Blackstock
Truth and the hatred of truth come into our world together. As soon as truth appears, it is regarded as an enemy.
— Tertullian
I ENTREAT THEE TO LET THY DIVINE EYES REST UPON A VAST NUMBER OF LITTLE SOULS, I ENTREAT THEE TO CHOOSE, IN THIS WORLD, A LEGION OF LITTLE VICTIMS OF THY LOVE.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
All that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only.
— Thomas a Kempis
The world promises things that are temporal and small, and it is served with great eagerness. I (Christ) promise things that are great and eternal, and the hearts of mortals are slow to stir.
— Thomas a Kempis
If this most holy Sacrament were celebrated in only one place and consecrated by only one priest in the whole world, with what great desire, do you think, would men be attracted to that place, to that priest of God, in order to witness the celebration of the divine Mysteries! But now there are many priests and Mass is offered in many places, that God's grace and love for men may appear the more clearly as the Sacred Communion is spread more widely through the world.
— Thomas a Kempis
How many perish through empty learning in this world, who care little for serving God.
— Thomas a Kempis
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 1: There is nothing wholly evil in the world, for evil is ever founded on good, as shown above (Q[48], A[3]). Therefore something is said to be evil through its escaping from the order of some particular good. If it wholly escaped from the order of the Divine government, it would wholly cease to exist.
— St. Thomas Aquinas