|
category-The world Quotes The world has yet to see what God will do with a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to the Holy Spiri
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.
Breaking free from extremely limited capacities of the present-day physical body and having gotten rid of the limits, a man may embark on a journey to a new knowledge, which is being born in his or her dreams. Nobody and nothing can stop such a man for he or she, having tasted freedom, has touched upon the capacities lying within a man. He or she has understood that life is a permanent creation of perfecting his or her soul through the world matter. It is only in this process that a man is implementing the plan of God
To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing or experiencing anything for the first time unless it comes as a revelation? And for that to happen, some previously held thought or belief must be confounded, or enhanced, or even transcended. What difference can it make otherwise to see a redwood tree, a tiger, or a humming bird?
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals… and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.
I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.
Women of the world crave excitement.
There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of an American presidential campaign.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on
Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy, perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.
The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality.
The men, who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable,
to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments,
shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
 |
Recently updated Topics:
Call QuotesSoon Quotes Trying Quotes Ancestors Quotes Again Quotes Rest Quotes Knife Quotes Always Quotes Burning Quotes Wholeness Quotes Most Searched Quotes LoveFriendship Hard Work Betrayal Nature Dedication Lying Opportunity Sports ACHIEVEMENT Community Safety Memory Global Warming Remembrance Rose Haters Narcissism Role Models Prevention Signup for our email inspirational newsletter:
Most Popular Authors this week:
AnonymousMahatma Gandhi Bhagavad Gita William Shakespeare Buddha Oscar Wilde Ralph Waldo Emerson Tamil proverb C.S. Lewis |
