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Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.
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.
Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].
While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.
She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.
For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.
I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.
I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.
Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.
If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.
In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.
I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.
I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.
I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.
Consciousness regulates and becomes the flow of energy and information in your body, your relationships, and your world.
And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.
We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.
Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the world's edge?
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.
I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?
So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.
In my world, of course, it don't matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.
This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.
Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?
Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.
Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
He wished that they could go through life like this. That he could physically put himself between Eleanor and the world.