Our World Quotes - Page 31

• The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Creative, Majority, Minorities

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, February 1, 2006.

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• Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

  Debbie Macomber

  Loss, Order, Gains

  Debbie Macomber (2014). “Choir of Angels”, p.315, MIRA

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• In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.

  Muriel Barbery

  Lying, Believe, Mirrors

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• It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us.

  Ann Voskamp

  Fall, Dark, Passing By

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.156, Zondervan

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• Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.

  Ronald Goldman

  World, Knows

  Ronald Goldman (1997). “Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma : how an American Cultural Practice Affects Infants and Ultimately Us All”

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• So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

  Wess Stafford

  Two, Excess, Obesity

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.177, WaterBrook

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• Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

  Joanna Macy

  Grace, Behalf, Happens

  Joanna Macy (2007). “World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times”, p.106, Parallax Press

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• Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Keys, Enemy, Problem

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.46, Beacon Press

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• Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Healing, Following Christ

  "The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is". Book by N. T. Wright, 1999.

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• I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Doe, Asking

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• Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world. In this lies the power and the meaning of spiritual companionship.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Lying, Moving

  Eknath Easwaran (1991). “Meditation: A Simple Eight-point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals Into Daily Life”, p.199, Nilgiri Press

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• Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Risk, Together, Despair

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• At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.

  Germany Kent

  Media, Practice, The End Of The Day

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• Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation. When film does this, when it subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional form.

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Heart, Reality, Alive

  Nathaniel Dorsky (2003). “Devotional Cinema”

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• The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.

  Peter Joseph

  Government, Suits, Midnight

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.

  Stephen Hawking

  Makeup, Dna, Robots

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• If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Mystery, Ready

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.280, Bantam

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• Inspire people to do the things that inspire them and, together, we can change our world.

  Simon Sinek

  Together We Can, People, Inspire

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• I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world.

  Barack Obama

  Entrepreneur, Community, Generations

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• What I learned in Guinea is that we are all responsible for the state of our world. The world - and the system by which we trade, share, cooperate and conflict - is clearly not working. We are only as strong as our weakest members. UNICEF is run at every level by strong, relentlessly energetic, deeply capable people who use that strength, energy and capability to help those who need it most: the weakest, most disadvantaged women and children of our world. All I can do now is help make people aware of what is happening, of what they are doing. That is all that I can do. For now.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Running, Strong, Children

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• Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

  Eric Stoltz

  Running, Kids, Soon Enough

  "Eric Stoltz: 'I felt really great after I lost my mobile phone'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

  Stephen Prothero

  Religious, Ignorance, Views

  Stephen Prothero (2010). “God Is Not One”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our world does not exist from its own side--like a dream world, it is a mere appearance to our mind. In dreams we can see and touch our dream world, but when we wake up we realize that it is simply a projection of our mind and had no existence outside our mind. In the same way, the world we see when we are awake is simply a projection of our mind and has no existence outside our mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Dream, Mind, Way

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 2 Tantra”, p.9, Tharpa Publications US

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• In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.

  Francis Chan

  World, Consistently

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.19, David C Cook

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