Quotes on World

Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over _x000D_ and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.

To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.

Look, I want to love this world _x000D_ as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get _x000D_ to be alive _x000D_ and know it.

The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.

This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.

God is alive. He has created every one of us, and he knows us all. He is so great that He has time for the little things in our lives: “Every hair of your head is numbered”. God is alive, and makes sense to become a priest: the world needs priests, pastors, today, tomorrow and always, until the end of time.

Prayer is all-powerful. Let us use it to bring peace to the Middle East and peace to the world.

If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.

It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.