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"I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand"
"I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception."
"What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!"
"Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you."
"Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world."
"There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation."
"I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world."
"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."
"How do you pray? Take the gospel of each day and spend ten minutes with it. Read it, and read it again. Walk into the world with the gospel in your heart."
"The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God."
"You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come."
"We want to prove we are good writers or good business, good parents or good teachers. The world is very competitive and catches us in this frenzy. It wants us to go here, be there, and be part of this or that."
"The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation."
"You don't have to run around world proving you're lovable."
"Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile."
"The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world."
"It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free."
"Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold."
"Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity."
"[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it."
