Our World Quotes - Page 8

• The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.

  Mary Midgley

  Moving, Essentials, Features

  Mary Midgley, David Midgley (2005). “The Essential Mary Midgley”, p.375, Psychology Press

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• God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Impact, Use, Individual

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• The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.

  Edmund Waller

  Thrones, Fabric, Links

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.54

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• So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Believe, Suicidal, Giving

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “Everything Must Change: When the World's Biggest Problems and Jesus' Good News Collide”, p.270, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

  Neil Tennant

  Boys, Pet, Fundamentals

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• The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.

  Wade Davis

  Real, Moving, Views

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• Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world.

  Allen Klein

  Attitude, Color, Crayon

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• This is our world, and we must make the best of it.

  Arthur Henderson

  World, Make The Best Of It

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• Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; for the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; for the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death.

  William Ellery Channing

  Heart, Men, Effort

  William Ellery Channing (1888). “The Works of William E. Channing”

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• Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.

  Sam Harris

  Abuse, Might, Different

  "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, p. 23, 2006.

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• Thought creates our world, and then says 'I didn't do it

  David Bohm

  World

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• Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors.

  Sam Harris

  Years, Ignorant, Progress

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• We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.

  John Eldredge

  Self, Trying, Energy

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

  Sam Harris

  Evil, Worry, Important

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Thinking, Romance, Littles

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Culture, Sacred, Today

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• We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Together, Determined

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we think of our world today with all of its interconnectedness and complexities, the scope of gospel renewal includes systems and structures that are far beyond what we might consider day-to-day.

  David Kim

  Thinking, Might, Today

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stars, Son, Balls

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Dream, Other Worlds, Two

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• Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Creation, Persons

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• I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Girl, Smart, Fall

  Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins

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• Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it’s always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Black And White, Evil, Profound

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety of our world.

  David Kim

  New Work, Innovative, Invites

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Sweetie, in our world, fair’s got nothing to do with anything. He who has the greatest power wins. It’s why we’re all willing to kill each other off without flinching. (Solin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Winning, Willing, Fairs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.301, Macmillan

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