The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
—Thomas Edison
Death waits for no one and nothing. Therefore, there’s nothing more important in this world for you than what you’re doing right now.
—Leo Tolstoy
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
—Thomas Edison
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
—Charles Dickens
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
—Heraclitus
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
—Heraclitus
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.
Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
—Henry David Thoreau
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We believe in a God of purposes and plans.
He has not left a blind fate to terrorize the world.”
— Charles Spurgeon
There’s no kind of external organization of the world, no sort of external laws and regulations that can change the life of the world; only the inner effort of each individual can.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Do not ever let anyone claim to be a true American patriot if they ever attempt to separate religion from politics.
—George Washington
Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’ – C.S. Lewis
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all.
—Nikolai Gogol
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The rulers of this world will endeavour to put you under bushels; but if your light is of GOD’s kindling, all the devils in hell shall not be able to extinguish it. Be not therefore, my brethren, weary of well doing.
—George Whitefield
The rulers of this world will endeavour to put you under bushels; but if your light is of GOD’s kindling, all the devils in hell shall not be able to extinguish it. Be not therefore, my brethren, weary of well doing.
—George Whitefield
Arise, ye sons of the prophets; shine forth, ye who are appointed to be the lights of the world.
—George Whitefield
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind… Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?
—Nikolai Gogol
A man would not for ten thousand worlds be willing to undergo that which Christ underwent for us in that one thing of desertion from God, were it attended with no more distress but what a mere creature might possibly emerge from under.
—John Owen
A man would not for ten thousand worlds be willing to undergo that which Christ underwent for us in that one thing of desertion from God, were it attended with no more distress but what a mere creature might possibly emerge from under.
—John Owen
When I consider it is for JESUS CHRIST, who has called me by his free grace into his marvellous light, and has promised to be with us always, even unto the end of the world, a divine fire kindles in my heart, and I long to call the lingering battle on.
—George Whitefield
When I consider it is for JESUS CHRIST, who has called me by his free grace into his marvellous light, and has promised to be with us always, even unto the end of the world, a divine fire kindles in my heart, and I long to call the lingering battle on.
—George Whitefield
I love those that thunder out the word. The Christian world is in a deep sleep. Nothing but a loud voice can awaken them out of it.
—George Whitefield
I have often thought, dear Madam, that you did not see through the world enough.
—George Whitefield
All *spiritual* revelation is by Christ. He is ‘the true Light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world,’ John 1:9.
—John Owen
Were not men so wise, the world, perhaps, would be more quiet, when the end of wisdom is to keep it in quietness.
—John Owen
JESUS is still striving with your heart. Come to him by faith, renounce the world, and he will yet delight to honour you.
—George Whitefield
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.
—John Owen
The world is not without good people and not without evil ones. Otherwise, how would we know which ones are good.
—Taras Shevchenko