It's a big world, and I really like it.

The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I don't want to be one of these lisping liberal artsy leeches." So I was working against my actual abilities.

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

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.

We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.

Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.

Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.