Our World Quotes - Page 23

• The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love with Jesus? In our world of brokeness and despair, there is an enormous need for men and women who know the heart of God; a heart that forgives, cares, reaches out and wants to heal.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Heart, Men

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• Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

  Sudhir Kakar

  War, Drinking, Humility

  Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of our world. At this point, the more people I reach, the more I accomplish. ... I miss Gombe and my wonderful years in the forest But if I were to go back to that, I wouldn't feel I was doing what I should be doing.

  Jane Goodall

  Science, Years, People

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• In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.

  Lev Grossman

  Life, Clueless, Volcanoes

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.796, Penguin

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• There is no option but to transform our world to a zero carbon future. We will fight to ensure that no one is left behind. This report breaks new ground and gives workers and businesses the confidence that there can be an economic plan which creates jobs and sets our planet on the course for survival.

  Sharan Burrow

  Jobs, Zero, Fighting

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• Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature of humility. Submission to the dictates of humility formerly was made palatable to man by the doctrine of grace; that elaborate doctrine has been overwhelmed by modern presumption.

  Russell Kirk

  Humility, Men, Vanity

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays”, p.364, Open Road Media

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• Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift from gas light to electric light. It has the potential to give us the competitive edge in the new global economy. The scale of the challenge is extraordinary. We will need to reinvent in the way we live our lives, the way our world works

  Charles Hendry

  Light, Oil, Giving

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• Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.

  Letty M. Russell

  Healing, Practice, Differences

  Letty M. Russell (2009). “Just Hospitality: God's Welcome in a World of Difference”, p.19, Westminster John Knox Press

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• If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible.

  Jim Rohn

  Encouragement, Inspiration, Impact

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• Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

  Rudy Rucker

  Running, Evil, Rude

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. November 2, 2002.

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• The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)... Yes the principles of the United Nations Charter are worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

  Colin Powell

  Effort, Honor, Principles

  Colin Powell's acceptance speech at the UN-USA Global Leadership Award, April 21, 1993.

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• As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Genius, Natural

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 26, 2011

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• Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

  Tom Hanks

  Differences, Choices, Jaw Dropping

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• There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Cutting, Opposites, Trying

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• It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?

  John Moffitt

  Giving Up, People, Doe

  "Quitting the N.F.L.: For John Moffitt, the Money Wasn’t Worth It" by Ken Belson, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2013.

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• The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.

  Timothy Morton

  Earth, Faces, Dots

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• An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

  Richard Mitchell

  Children, Clever, Writing

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• We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

  Siobhan Davies

  Artist, Europe, Skills

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• I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Space, Reader, Privileged

  Edwin A. Abbott, Thomas Banchoff, Seth Caplan, Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson (2009). “Flatland: The Movie Edition”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world -- for us.

  Roger Dawson

  Perception, World, Changing The World

  Roger Dawson (1994). “The 13 secrets of power performance”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Running, Ideas, Confusion

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• When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done.' The Kings of kings left worlds of light, Became the meek and lowly one; In brightest day or darkest night He said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done." No crown of thorns, no cruel cross Could make our great Redeemer shun. He counted his own will but loss, And said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done." We take the bread and cup this day, In memory of the Sinless One, And pray for strength, That we may say, As he, "Thy will, O Lord, be done."

  Frank I. Kooyman

  Kings, Memories, Loss

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• We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

  Dora Russell

  Wisdom, Learning, Offering

  "The Tamarisk Tree: Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell, Vol. 3, Ch. 14, 1985.

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• "Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world," the emissary said, "and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it."

  Carlos Castaneda

  Dream, Men, Doors

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• I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.

  Yanni

  Humanity, Overcoming, Difficult Times

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