I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only b...
116. "I have heard that on the day the world was born, the bird of love was released to fly. It searched all the three worlds but could not find a fit resting place. So it turned and entered the inmost heart, favoured it and never flew elsewhere. The...
In the radiance of His light the world is not commonplace. The very floor we stand on is a miracle of atoms whizzing about in space. The darkness of sin is clarified, and its burden shouldered. Death is robbed of its finality, trampled down by Christ...
One walks along a street and strays unknowingly from one's path; one then looks up and suddenly for those familiar landmarks of orientation, and, seeing none, one feels lost. Panic drapes the look of the world in a strangeness, and the more one stare...
And what do I think about? What thoughts do I have! - What thoughts! a whole host, multitude, and world of thoughts, I keep devising new ones and reworking old ones, some of the old ones are concluded and are only thought of as conclusions, whole wor...
On evenings, I spent the entire study period reading.... From that time on, the world began to broaden around me, beyond any tangible limits. The world, as portrayed in those works destined for young people, was divided in two: an ordinary, everyday ...
The world has not made a promise to anybody.
Man can't live in this world alone.
Fools are free all the world over.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
The world flatters the elephant and tramples on the ant.
The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey.
When I drown, the whole world drowns.
Love makes the world go round.
I should hex the IRS.
I wanted to be a world champion.
O my love! In this loveless world, you are my world.
I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world.
One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.