Our World Quotes - Page 8

• God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Impact, Use, Individual

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• It was so fascinating to be a part of this, because as the women took on these central roles that had all the good lines, therefore all the good laughs, all the great moments- the men, who had joined us to sit on stage, started squirming rather uncomfortably. And got really bored. Because they weren't used to being the supporting cast. It was fascinating to feel their discomfort, to discuss it with them afterwards when they said, 'It's boring to play the girl role.' And I said, 'Yeah. Yeah, ya think? Welcome to our world.'

  Olivia Wilde

  Girl, Bad Ass, Men

  "Olivia Wilde Just Dropped Some Serious Knowledge On How The Media Can Empower Women" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2014.

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• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.

  Tony Blair

  Patriotic, Fighting, Evil

  Statement at the Trade Union Conference on the 9/11 Attacks, delivered 11 September 2001

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• The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the sickness of pornography has run to its most evil and destructive end, it takes the form of child pornography. When prostitution reaches its sickest, most depraved form, it becomes child prostitution.

  Wess Stafford

  Running, Children, Sacrifice

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.2, WaterBrook

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• In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

  Kofi Annan

  Eras, Poverty, Abundance

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• Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.

  Barack Obama

  Progress, World, Poverty

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

  Wess Stafford

  Determination, Children, Roots

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.159, WaterBrook

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• The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

  Hermann Hesse

  Peace, War, Promise

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• There are 3 kinds of magic in our world. The peddling little magician magic like Uncle Andrew in 'The Magicians Newphew' where people mess around with things they don't understand. It's movie magic. Then there is the magic of the evil side of things. The demonic forces. And that's not really magic... it's corruption of what really exists. And then finally there is the magic of the Holy Spirit of God which is the creation and maintenence of the universe. We don't understand it... and we haven't the faintest idea how He does it. But it's real. That's the deep magic.

  Douglas Gresham

  Uncles, Real, Ideas

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• One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Lying, People, Facts

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• By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Science, Conflict, Possibility

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• The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New York, Stars, Dark

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.

  Alexis Carrel

  Jesus, Atheism, Doe

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• So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.

  Jean Vanier

  War, People, Community

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.177, Paulist Press

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• The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

  George W. Bush

  Expansion, World, Hoping For The Best

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Culture, Sacred, Today

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• Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians... Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Philosophy, Heart

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• The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.

  Romain Rolland

  Europe, Soul, Together

  "Life of Ramakrishna". Book by Romain Rolland, 1929.

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• Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is the vital challenge of sustainable development. If we act now there is much that can be saved which will otherwise disappear forever

  John Gummer

  Future, Waiting, Forever

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• The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.

  Edmund Waller

  Thrones, Fabric, Links

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.54

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• So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Believe, Suicidal, Giving

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “Everything Must Change: When the World's Biggest Problems and Jesus' Good News Collide”, p.270, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Thinking, Romance, Littles

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Powerful, Book, Thinking

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• Sure, they are the future of our world. Nike and Reebok need more factory workers every day.

  Zach Braff

  Nike, Needs, Factory Workers

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• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

  Joan Halifax

  Symphony, Silence, Simplicity

  Joan Halifax (2007). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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