This World Quotes - Page 16

• ... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

  Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

  Prayer, Blessing, World

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• It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, People

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• People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

  Jackson Browne

  Baseball, Growing Up, Children

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• My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

  Kailash Kher

  Real, World, Guru

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• We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Humor, America

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wise, History, Heaven

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.217

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• The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Perfect

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• Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Greatness, Differences, Firsts

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• If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.

  Corey Taylor

  Writing, Mean, Mcdonalds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Forgiving, Needs

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Lord of Misrule: The Morganville Vampires”, p.25, Penguin

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• Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

  Jules Verne

  Giving Up, Needs, World

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• It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Moving, Wind

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 03, 2015

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• The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

  Emile Durkheim

  Christian, Country, Thinking

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

  Arthur Miller

  World, Firsts, Being There

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• I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

  Jennifer Niven

  Towers, Looks, Bumps

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.89, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

  Robert McCall

  Men, Be Who You Are, World

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• We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Life Changing, Thinking, People

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• My heart wants to read the Bible, wants to obey God. When you have Jesus in your life, when you have God in your life, like the thing in this world is not important to your heart. The more important is God in your heart. That's how God changed my life.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Jesus, Heart, Important

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• Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Prayer, Hate, Men

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• This world is nothing except it tend to another.

  George Herbert

  World

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.303

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• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Believe, Past

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• A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

  Katherine Boo

  World, Way, Strikes

  "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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• You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it--don't plan anything, just go out and do it.

  Jack Kerouac

  World, Want, Plans

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• Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

  C. S. Lewis

  World, Knows

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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