World Quotes

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God’s loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

Strength so powerful, it makes hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones tremble, your courage so admirable, monarchs around the world could use you as an example.

In a world of lost souls how could I ever find a home?

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

I want you to know, John, that you are the most important thing in this world to me.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.

It’s the simple things creating pockets of serenity in a world of uncertainty.

The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.