So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from G... HENRI NOUWEN I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found... LANA DEL REY I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people ar... CHRIS HARDWICK (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental wo... MIRA NAIR He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries,... HERBIE HANCOCK People often ask: If there’s a God, how can He allow so much suffering in the world? Realize all w... ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tel... SHARON SALZBERG In the kind of fast-food world that we live in, where everything's so fast paced and it's, &... CHRIS STAPLETON My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all... DREE HEMINGWAY End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my ow... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to ... SUE MONK KIDD I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compre... ERIC SCHMIDT This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle ... TOM COLICCHIO To me, there's so much talent in the world that's locked out for the wrong reasons, whether ... MEGAN SMITH I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very... NEIL MARSHALL I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other... BRIAN CHESKY We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having t... LEONARD COHEN You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL It is a really bizarre feeling to perform for, like, five people. You get so much energy from an aud... AIDY BRYANT The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's differ... NICK JONAS What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for var... C. S. LEWIS The person I am every single day is the person that's growing and getting better. The more peopl... RUBY ROSE I felt that what you should do is really take the best from each party's agenda and come to a so... DICK MORRIS You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket scie... MICHAEL POLLAN What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no othe... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked wh... ELAINE N. ARON If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the wo... EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ... BUDDHA We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but ... TOM BRADY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We want to make it clear that Indiana's open for business. We want to make it clear that Hoosier... MIKE PENCE There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting... TONY KUSHNER When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can ke... DAISAKU IKEDA I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed ... VERONICA ROTH I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British ... ERIC MCCORMACK It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place t... MILLA JOVOVICH Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. The... GORDON RAMSAY All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famin... FLEA That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural ... JASON FRIED Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unles... CATHERINE OPIE Everything that UCLA stands for, it's top of the food chain. So you either look at those things ... STEVE ALFORD It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people ... SUNG KANG It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get... MIRANDA OTTO What I love about Thanksgiving is that it's purely about getting together with friends or family... DANIEL HUMM I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting,... NATHAN MYHRVOLD Serbia produces wheat and so - understandably - they want to protect their farmers from imports of c... MILO DJUKANOVIC Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, ou... DANIEL GOLEMAN Famine emerges from a lack of interlocal trade; when one locality's food crop fails, since there... MURRAY ROTHBARD About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it'... STEWART BUTTERFIELD I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's ... ENID BLYTON It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem... BIANCA KAJLICH The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way ... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Million... KEVIN DEYOUNG Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories... LOUISE FRESCO Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write so... ADAM D'ANGELO If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everyw... GAEL GARCIA BERNAL It gives us a look into a world that's very much like 'Traffic' was for drugs, this movi... JARED LETO Our culture values independence and isolation far too much, it seems to me--we have a hard time maki... TOM WALSH If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world ... JARON LANIER There's the right person, or right people, for each other. There is that order that's search... WHIT STILLMAN I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta's policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but om... SUKARNO I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI On a job, there's so much commitment you have to give, in regards to time, research... I like th... LIAM CUNNINGHAM Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world le... SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's ... AUSTIN MAHONE Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. Go... MATTIE STEPANEK You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. Bu... JOE ROGAN A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he'... EDWARD DE BONO I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha... C. JOYBELL C. There's nothing like the feeling of being in Times Square for New Year's Eve. It's such ... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see ... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH First we must understand that all of the world's deceptions flow from the belief that love is primar... JOSHUA HARRIS Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates i... LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace... PAUL WELLSTONE If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a peopl... LAURA OSNES When you label somebody and put them in a box, then you put the lid on the box, and you just never l... STEPHANIE BEATRIZ Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it's alliances or vo... R. J. CUTLER There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that&... CARL HIAASEN At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalt... LEWIS B. SMEDES It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it'... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I wan... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting ... WALTER RUSSELL MEAD Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but ado... MARKETA IRGLOVA It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate fo... MOBY I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That's a lot of money, and so, man, t... STEVEN ADAMS This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the worl... EVELYN UNDERHILL If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramat... DAVID DASTMALCHIAN I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think... MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a w... HOLLY HUNTER Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mail... CAITLYN JENNER Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one's own home. It buds out from the love ... KIM JONG-UN I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suff... MARY J. BLIGE
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TOMMY LEE Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you kn... HARPER LEE The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits. BRUCE LEE Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious eve... BRUCE LEE It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was... HARPER LEE A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. BRUCE LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug... HARPER LEE My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, t... LEE IACOCCA I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, ev... TANITH LEE You are not flawed, you are as beautiful as you have always been and blessed with evidence of a life... BECCA LEE She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there... HARPER LEE As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell yo... HARPER LEE It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with pass... SPIKE LEE We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. LEE IACOCCA You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It... LEE IACOCCA Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserati... LEE IACOCCA It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it. LEE HANEY The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness. LEE IACOCCA I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team. LEE IACOCCA You're only has good as your last haircut. SUSAN LEE Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong wit... LEE IACOCCA Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, y... LEE IACOCCA Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, ... BLAINE LEE Circumstances hell! I make circumstances! BRUCE LEE