Our World quotes

Our World

738 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

738 quotes
Henri Nouwen
Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author

"The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow myself to become paralyzed by feelings of helplessness and guilt. More important than ever is to be very faithful to my vocation to do well the few things I am called to do and hold on to the joy and peace they bring me. I must resist the temptation to let the forces of darkness pull me into despair and make me one more of their many victims."

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama Politician

"The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together."

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Billy Graham
Billy Graham Evangelist, Author

"Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus."

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Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

"You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year."

Our World New Year Happy
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Ban Ki-moon Diplomat
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"You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a voice. Social networking is changing how we interact - and it can change our world. You are in touch with peers from around the world. You understand the power of instant communication. I appeal to you to use that power for the common good, the power of communication and the power of networking."

Ideas Communication Our World
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature."

Men Our World Cosmos
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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace."

Numbers White Our World
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Peter Joseph Activist, Author
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"The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business."

Government Our World Suits
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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today."

Years Our World Crumbling
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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
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"We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic."

Smart Confused Our World
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe"

Mean Our World Lions
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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain."

Pain Stupid Our World
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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world."

Thinking Air Our World
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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling."

Eye Doe Our World
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control."

Names Our World Dmt
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Thomas Wolfe Novelist
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"It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between."

Lying Agreement Our World
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