Quotes About Our World

#1. We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

Wess Stafford

#2. This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear,

Rob Bell

#3. What's wrong?" Elysia asked, concerned. "Is it the fact that the very foundation of our world is crumbling all around us and we're barreling forth into a hellish vision of uncertainty and terror the likes of which have never been seen?"

"Sounds wonderful to me," Edgar said, drifting by.

Gina Damico

#4. Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#5. If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

Jeff Hawkins

#6. We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.

Simon Toyne

#7. Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests.
In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.

Rick Remender

#8. You are going through difficult moments of life. Times when you do not understand the ways of our world or the ways of our people. Hold on to yourself in these moments. These times will change. Calm will return to your being. Hold on to yourself. Please.

Avijeet Das

#9. Look at the history of civil laws in our world and the source from which they emerged, and you will see that the vast majority of them arose directly from, or where based in principle on, Roman Canon Law, or the laws of other religious origin. Sharia is another notable example.

Neale Donald Walsch

#10. I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off of old traditions that don't suit our world any longer.

Cameron Diaz

#11. For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

Brian Cox

#12. Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect light to light to light, and join the lights together of the one billion young people in our world today, we will be enough to set our whole planet aglow.

Hafsat Abiola

#13. They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music - rather advanced music which you don't quite take in at the first hearing - than birds' songs ever are in our world.

C.S. Lewis

#14. There's only so much room for life and death
in our world. One must be traded for the other.

Will Bly

#15. The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love with Jesus? In our world of brokeness and despair, there is an enormous need for men and women who know the heart of God; a heart that forgives, cares, reaches out and wants to heal.

Henri Nouwen

#16. If it was true that all paths in our World led to only one place, then why not fill whatever path you chose with the best things you could find?

Jeff Hirsch

#17. Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn't see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it.

Donna Freitas

#18. When we become curious about the dissatisfying defaults in our world, we begin to recognize that most of them have social origins: Rules and systems were created by people. And that awareness gives us the courage to contemplate how we can change them. Before

Adam M. Grant

#19. Words like "God" and "Allah" must go the way of "Apollo" and "Baal," or they will unmake our world.

Sam Harris

#20. The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

George H. W. Bush

#21. God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

James Dobson

#22. We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

Max Lucado

#24. We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.

Veronica Roth

#25. All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW ... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire ... but NOW.

Susan Jeffers

#26. One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Terri Blackstock

#27. Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.

Nick Offerman

#28. The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.

Rachael Bermingham

#29. The mind knows ... that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that restricts our world's path to points that tell an internally consistent story.

Neal Stephenson

#30. What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?

Reuben Heyday Margolin

#31. As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all ... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

William Deresiewicz

#32. Our world is becoming more busy and noisy.
We are pushing silence out of our lives at a rate that suggests a fear of what it has to say to us about ourselves.

John O'Donohue

#33. Our world badly needs people who know how to listen.

Fawn Weaver

#34. In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.

Paul McCartney

#35. Then and now, Jesus witnesses that ours is a God who seeks us out and whose kingdom proclaims: Pay attention to what is lost. Be tender to all that is broken, fragile and wounded in our world. Sr. Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.

Mark Neilsen

#36. We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.

Neil Gaiman

#37. In the craziness of our world, it takes tremendous effort to find a quiet place. It takes time to quiet your mind and your heart before the Lord.

Francis Chan

#38. Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?

Sherry Shahan

#39. As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.

Ravi Zacharias

#40. Your work matters a great deal to God, to others and to our world. There is no ordinary work. The work God has called you to do is extraordinary. Don't miss out on God's best by taking an ordinary approach to it.

Tom Nelson

#41. Life in our world is very sink or swim, and that's for the best. If you can't survive in the deep end, you should get out before you drown.

Seanan McGuire

#42. The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable ... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.

Ravi Zacharias

#43. FOR EVERY GRAIN OF SAND IN OUR WORLD, THERE ARE ONE MILLION STARS IN THE UNIVERSE.

Mark Twain

#44. The first is that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong.

Malcolm Gladwell

#45. Our world is nothing but a mistery. You never know what happens the next second...

Mykyta Isagulov

#46. Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men's eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom.

Billy Graham

#47. Five words that were the hardest words I would ever have to say,
Five pillars of my faith that couldn't save him that day.
Five rivers, the Panj Aab, that didn't flow through his veins.
Five minutes that changed our world forever.

Ruth Ahmed

#48. As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.

Dalai Lama XIV

#49. People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

Ban Ki-moon

#50. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well.

Erica Sehyun Song

#51. From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

Jose Saramago

#52. I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

Taylor Swift

#53. Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things didn't come from government. Our world is going to get better and better, as long as we keep the politicians from screwing it up.

David Boaz

#54. Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.

Eliot Pattison

#55. Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Rudy Rucker

#56. The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

Adam Hochschild

#57. As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it ... Children trust the power of words.

Julia Cameron

#58. Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

Nicholas Kristof

#59. As the morning sun rises bringing needed light to our world ... let me worship you Lord and as the moon illuminates the darken night skies ... let me sing a praise of your greatness!

Timothy Pina

#60. In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

Mia Wasikowska

#61. The most amazing part," Katherine said, "is that as soon as we humans begin to harness our true power, we
will have enormous control over our world. We will be able to design reality rather than merely react to it.

Dan Brown

#62. It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

Ralph Steadman

#63. Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.

Bonnie Baker

#64. Let not our trials of this day be our final sentence. For our difficulties of today is definitely shared by another in our world. Therefore, be encouraged and don't give up because tomorrow a new dawn will surely shine, and once we have life we have the most precious gift-Genevieve Sarpong.

Genevieve Sarpong

#65. Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Billy Graham

#66. Our world is ... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender ... and ours; a God whose love frightens us into His strong and powerful arms where He longs to whisper those terrifying words, 'I love you.'

Mike Yaconelli

#67. And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

Shane Claiborne

#68. Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out.

Max Lucado

#69. Our thoughts create our world.

Stephen Richards

#70. There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

Elijah Wood

#71. Our world-view determines the manner in which we engage the world.

Sunday Adelaja

#72. With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

Lord Byron

#73. It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

Eric Hoffer

#74. Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

Paul Tournier

#75. It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

Sam Harris

#76. Our relationship with our world is the overriding template for our relationship with everything.

David Ault

#77. Our world is like an enraged teen threatening to explode if an adult even raises a finger.

Clara A. Tobin

#78. The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.

Breyten Breytenbach

#79. Being involved and being committed are miles apart. In our world today, most people are relationally involved, but few are truly committed.

Craig Groeschel

#80. There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#81. Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.

Malala Yousafzai

#82. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.

George Orwell

#83. Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined ... or one great figure ... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

Philip K. Dick

#84. The generation of choice has left us no choices. As our world turns and we devour ourselves. We stare into the eyes of our children, a brilliant reflection of our image. And, we blame them for what we see.

Sonja Cassandra Perdue

#85. The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.

Gary Haugen

#86. We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

Leymah Gbowee

#87. novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. If

Karen Armstrong

#88. And because she jumped, our world began

Emily Henry

#89. Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

Owen Gingerich

#90. Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we're stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn't be worse than this one, though.

Michael Monroe

#91. Individually and collectively, we are shifting from a position of fear into surrender and trust of the intuitive. The power of the feminine energy is on the rise in our world.

Shakti Gawain

#92. Continually, a storm blew through our world and it always had, and the only place I knew where this was formulated, the most extreme yet simplest things, was in these holy scriptures.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#93. So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.

Liza Minnelli

#94. We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#95. Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Gloria Steinem

#96. These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.

Robert Gilpin

#97. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent, we are interdependent.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#98. Inspire people to do the things that inspire them and, together, we can change our world.

Simon Sinek

#99. I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.

Chelsea Clinton

#100. Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.

Louis L'Amour