The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms
For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.
I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.
No one can do everything, but everyone can do something, and together we can change the world.
We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.
You are given the gift of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs; yours is the creative energy that makes your world; there are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.
If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.
Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.
Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.
Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now. ' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.
If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
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.
Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.