This World Quotes - Page 19

• Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sea, Suffering, Comfort

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 207), 1895.

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• When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Self, Grace, Trials

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.6

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• I do so hate to leave this world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Hate, World

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• Try to comprehend the unity of all; there is one God, and all are one in Him. If we can but bring home to ourselves the unity of that Eternal Love, there will be no more sorrow for us; for we shall realize, not for ourselves alone but for those whom we love, that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, and that in Him we live and move and have our being, whether it be in this world or in the world to come.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Moving, Home, Unity

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1920). “The Science of the Sacraments”

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• Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.

  Rumi

  Thinking, Sky, World

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Kindness, World, Next

  "Tirukkuṛaḷ". Religious text, 1812.

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• Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Hands, World, Poverty

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.355

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• Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Pain, Kindness, Heart

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 363), 1895.

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• As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Encounters, World, Virtue

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• As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 3, 1842.

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• There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

  Nikolai Gogol

  People, World, Spots

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 5, 1842.

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• If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Suffering, World, Rewards

  "Five Tracts of Hasan Al-Banna: A Selection from the Majmu at Rasail al-Imam al-Shahid Hasan al-Banna". Translated and annotated by Charles Wendell, p. 156,

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• Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.

  Guru Angad

  World, Worthless Life, Dies

  "Guru Granth Sahib", p. 83,

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• In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

  I. L. Peretz

  World, Weak, Dangerous

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• Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience.

  Esther Hicks

  Trust, War, People

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• One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

  Agatha Christie

  Accompany Us, Self, World

  Agatha Christie, writing as Mary Westmacott (2014). “A Daughter’s a Daughter”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.

  Maude Royden

  Moon, America, People

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• In this world I probably know best. The person I like doesn't look at me but looks at someone else, smiles for someone else. I really know how you're feeling. And I can't truthfully be jealous either. I think if two people naturally like each other, it's almost like a miracle. Someday, will that miracle come true for me too?

  Hani

  Drama, Jealous, Thinking

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• The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, House, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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• There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

  Marvin Gaye

  Eye, Heart, Artist

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• The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.

  William Wickenden

  Faith, Men, Essence

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• Don't leave this world without giving it your all.

  Tupac Shakur

  Giving, World

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• the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

  Albert Einstein

  World, Contemplation, Liberation

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.340, Running Press

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• People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.

  Kinky Friedman

  Loyalty, Dog, Kindness

  Kinky Friedman (2011). “Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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