Our World Quotes - Page 29

• The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Narrative, Scripture, Changing The World

  Stanley Hauerwas (1991). “A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic”, p.68, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

  Steven Amsterdam

  Wisdom, Limits, Embrace

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• Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.

  Al Gore

  Energy, Causes, Global Warming

  Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.10, Rodale

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• With more money, you can take better care of yourself and leverage your passion and higher purpose in the world. Earn more, so you can give more of yourself and put your money to work for causes that make our world a better place.

  John Assaraf

  Passion, Giving, Purpose

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Dec 18, 2013

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• Our world today is in the grip of anti-capitalism. State bureaucracies ruling over anti-market policies have grown into ideological and political elites who arrogantly presume to know and dictate how we should all live and work.

  Richard Ebeling

  Political, Today, States

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• Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Oil, Sick

  "Glenn Reynolds and Mickey Kaus on Barack Obama’s slum lord problem, and global warming, Indian style". Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. July 2, 2008.

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• There is something about keeping Him divine that keeps Him distant, packaged, predictable. But don't do it. For heaven's sake, don't. Let Him be as human as He intended to be. Let Him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let Him in can He pull us out.

  Max Lucado

  Heaven, Sake, Divine

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Night, Earth, Walks

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• The Christmas message itself is that God chooses common people to do the most uncommon things. No matter how common you are, and no matter how simple you are, God has a plan and ability to come into our world and do something unusual.

  Max Lucado

  Simple, People, Matter

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When we focus on others, our world expands.

  Daniel Goleman

  Focus, Empathy, Selfishness

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, p.54, Random House

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• The culture of chefs is a melting pot, and I always say this - if we could put all the heads of state around a table, each representing their food culture, and then each take one bite of the other's and pass it to the right, and then explain the ideals and culture around those bites, our world problems would be easier to solve.

  Robert Irvine

  Food Culture, Tables, Melting Pot

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There's so much noise that's happening in our world, but the little voice that you've always got to listen to is your gut and your intuition, and you can do things and go beyond boundaries, if you to trust that gut and instinct.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Voice, Intuition, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

  Jerry Garcia

  Battle, Agendas, Maps

  Source: medium.com

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• Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Writing, Long, Expectations

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• Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This quest for enlightenment must begin now.
  It is essential that all men and women become aware of what they are, why they are here on Earth and what they must do to preserve civilization before it is too late.

  Richard Matheson

  Men, Civilization, Profound

  "The Path". Book by Richard Matheson, 1999.

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• Those of us who believe in human rights and the truth - particularly the journalists and the media - should stand in defense of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. We owe them a lot for telling us the truth of what is happening in our world, and that is why I would continue to support them.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Believe, Media, Rights

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

  Amy Richards

  Decision, Majority, Minorities

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• Sometimes we don't face what's going on in our world, be it a water crisis or an earth crisis, because it's a little too scary and painful. Just like we don't want to face the parts of ourselves that are a little too uncomfortable or painful. We've gotta face both and love both so that we can heal both.

  Alysia Reiner

  Water, Scary, Want

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• I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Opposites, Stuff, Today

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• 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

  Religious, Law, Looks

  "A Revolution Is What’s Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is still true that the life we have created for ourselves on this earth is not working. Not one of the systems we have put into place in our world is functional - not the political, not the economical, not the ecological, not the educational, not the social, and not the spiritual. None of them are producing the outcomes we say we want. In fact, it's worse. They are producing the outcomes we say we don't want.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Educational, Political

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

  Horst Kohler

  Fate, Views, Humanity

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• Remember the heart. It is supposed to be in control of the mind. That's the way it was supposed to happen. It got inverted over the other way when we fell out of creation. It's not normal and it has caused a lot of problems. As you can see, our world is dying.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Heart, Mind, Dying

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

  Byron Katie

  Sports, War, Believe

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• We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Relax, Quests

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