World Quotes - Page 753

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.

Ownership in the world I have none, but I have an infinite interest in it; for if not my own it is my God's; and so it is mine in a higher than a legal sense. Yes, this is the beauty, this is the whole sublimity, this is the tender delight of life - that it is of God's governing.

There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.

I'm more from a double world where I wasn't part of anything or invested in anything, because I was Irish, and very Irish, but also the other part of my family, not that it had airs, or money, was descended from the first minister on Cape Ann in the 1620s.

I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that we're not aware of, and [they] don't explain what the rules are, that kind of stuff drives me crazy.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how — these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

Abraham Lincoln had a deep realism; he did not deceive or mislead himself, but faced the world he had to deal with as it really is. At the same time, he had a striking moral intelligence, and a confidence in the working of his own mind and conscience.

If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in the whole course of their lives, in their manner of using the world, because it can have no place anywhere else.

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides