The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

Water’s never clumsy.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

I’m a big believer than a great bit is a great bit – if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they’re beautiful things when they’re done.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.