I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
God's desire is not for us to turn our churches and Christian gatherings into hideouts from the world. Rather, they're meant to be places where we become equipped and fortified to minister out in the world.
If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.
In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.
... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.
We Communists must be able to integrate ourselves with the masses in all things. If our Party members spend their whole lives sitting indoors and never go out to face the world and brave the storm, what good will they be to the Chinese people? None at all, and we do not need such people as Party members. We Communists ought to face the world and brave the storm the great world of mass struggle and the mighty storm of mass struggle.
I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.
We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.
some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic. there is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.
I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.
You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.
We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world.
