World Quotes - Page 699

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. If they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom?

But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.

The church of my choice is the free, open world.

Why do they murder and why do they hate us? Because all of them ... 80 years of history, they all want to conquer the world, they all rejected Jesus and they're all famous for murder. Nazis, Shintoists, Communists and the Mohammedists. Every one of them the same way.

Everything in the world can be made better, and everything in the world therefore should be made better. It deserves to be made better. It's a moral obligation to try to improve things a little bit at a time.

Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world.

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

My big struggle has been how to expand my mind without being able to expand my physical experience of the world.

Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.

Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G. Welles said "I'm terribly sorry I've missed the last five meetings, I've been terribly busy, I'm engaged in writing a scientific pamphlet on the effects of radioactivity in 1984 and I've produced a novel, and various pieces of science fiction to do, and I've had a bit of personal trouble, and I had my copy to bring out for the newspaper." Shaw leapt up and said, "I've not missed one meeting, and I have written a play!" hardest thing in the world. If it were easy they'd all be at it.

When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.

The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

I was continually connected with the whole world and never got any rest. At the moment, I spend only a few hours weekly on the net, that's just better for me.

The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.

Help cure the world of the faith virus.

The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.