Worldly Challenges Quotes

It's a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.

I am living in this world, and if this world already has a certain prejudice of me and an idea of me, then it's really hard for me to go through it.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties.

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

I've been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don't have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

Are there so many fascinating, exciting things to do or so many challenges pressing down upon you that it is hard to keep focused on that which is essential? When things of the world crowd in, all too often the wrong things take highest priority. Then it is easy to forget the fundamental purpose of life. Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction. He would have good people fill life with 'good things' so there is no room for the essential ones. Have you unconsciously been caught in that trap?

He wished that they could go through life like this. That he could physically put himself between Eleanor and the world.

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.