World Quotes - Page 831

Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word".

I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.

Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes. It's also a fantastic medium to hear the ideas and opinions of people I might not otherwise get to meet.

There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world."

I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

What has spread all over the world is not yoga. It is not even non-yoga; it is un-yoga.

You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.

I love to shut out the world sometimes and hibernate.

Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.

The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?

Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

Our world needs good and strong families.

Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world

Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Let us work and pray.

The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must love and protect. There is much that we can do to benefit the poor, the needy and those who suffer, and to favour justice, promote reconciliation and build peace. But before all else we need to keep alive in our world the thirst for the absolute, and to counter the dominance of a one-dimensional vision of the human person, a vision which reduces human beings to what they produce and to what they consume: this is one of the most insidious temptations of our time.

May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation to be witnesses and missionaries of the joy of the Gospel, in Asia and in the whole world.

An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

The horizon of love is truly boundless: it is the whole world!