World Quotes

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

~ Pope Francis

As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.

~ José Rizal

The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

~ Jesus Christ

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

~ Albert Einstein

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

~ Benjamin Harrison

If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.

~ Mattie Stepanek

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

~ Isaac Newton

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

~ Billy Graham

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.

~ Dorothea Dix

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

~ William Barclay

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

~ Martin Luther King

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

~ Ramakrishna

The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.

~ Pope Shenouda Iii

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

~ Philip Yancey

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

~ Arthur Peacocke

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

~ Archibald Hill

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

I have recently been able to see the new world - the quiet, the tranquility and the freedom it will bring with it. This is very comforting knowledge for me because I already know that what I envision eventually becomes a reality.

~ Shari Arison

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

~ Thomas Friedman

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

~ Jon Kyl

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

~ Henry Ford

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

~ John Locke

The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.

~ Martin Jacques

While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.

~ Niels Bohr

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

~ Susanne Langer

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

~ George Boole

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

~ John Polkinghorne

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

~ Isabel Allende

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.

~ Paul Kalanithi

The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.

~ Willard Libby

When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats. There were no trains. There were no communications. No Internet. No widespread knowledge. It will be a completely different world but a much better place in a hundred years.

~ Jamie Dimon

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

~ Abraham Cowley

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

~ John Tuley

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

~ Anne Rice

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.

~ David Christian

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

~ Aristotle

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

~ Pope Francis