Quotes About Worldview

replace our foundational democratic principles and institutions with a state grounded on a particular version of Christianity, answering to what some adherents call a "biblical worldview" that also happens to serve the interests of its plutocratic funders and allied political leaders.

It's part of the human condition that we create stories about ourselves and about the world around us. Our stories are often filled with limitations, and we proceed to live our lives inside those limitations. Your

Regarding kids who attended church, Beemer found that: Eighty-three percent said their science teachers taught them that the earth was millions or billions of years old.10 What this means is that the secular, atheistic world is being more effective at training the church kids than the Church! It is time to reverse this trend!

Flood legends are an excellent confirmation of what we expected to find in a biblical worldview. Consider the converse. In an evolutionary story with millions of years where there was supposedly no global flood, there shouldn't be any global flood stories. So why would anyone have a massive global flood account in their history?

The dominant Western worldview is not based on seeing synergies and connections but on making distinctions and seeing differences.

What we think of ourselves and of the world makes us who we are and what we can be.

It is easier to accept your limits if you have a biblical view of success. The world defines success in terms of what a person possesses, controls, or accomplishes. God defines success in terms of faithful obedience to his will. The world asks, 'What results have your achieved?' God asks, 'Were you faithful to my ways?

We must remember that the rationalistic attitude of the West is not the only possible one and is not all-embracing, but is in many ways a prejudice and a bias that ought perhaps to be corrected.

How totally different did the world appear to medieval man! For him the earth was eternally fixed and at rest in the centre of the universe…Men were all children of God under the loving care of the Most High, who prepared them for eternal blessedness; and all knew exactly what they should do and how they should conduct themselves in order to rise from a corruptible world to an incorruptible and joyous existence. Such a life no longer seems real to us, even in our dreams.

Most of these super-sovereigns feel that God can comment if he wants to, but God must avoid getting loud. While God is welcome to his opinions, he is only one voice, and he doesn't get extra points just for being God. The unstudied opinionated are prone to say, even to God, "Yes, but here's what I think." In such a world, classic apologetics has lost much of its force.

Echemos ahora un vistazo a los pasajes paulinos a fin de notar los contrastes éticos presentados en los escritos de Pablo: Romanos 12:2; Gálatas 1:4; 1 Corintios 1:2; 2:6; 2 Corintios 4:4 "la más fuerte de todas las declaraciones, pues llama a Satanás el dios de este mundo; Efesios 2:2, "la corriente (curso) de este mundo"; Colosenses 1:13; 2 Timoteo 4:10, "amando este mundo".

Remember how social change happens. Each of us has a worldview that pretty much interprets the world for us, puts our personal and public experiences in some kind of rational and understandable order. That worldview works fairly well for a period of time. Then something happens that renders it insufficient. Something happens that can't be fit into life as we have known and interpreted it.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Parvati's oriental ability to see that everything was, from a certain point of view, everything else, baffled and charmed his Aristotelian western mind.

Essere vegetariano è la mia protesta verso il comportamento collettivo. Essere vegetariano significa essere in disaccordo - in disaccordo su come va il mondo oggigiorno. Carestie, crudeltà - dobbiamo prendere una posizione contro queste cose. Il vegetarismo è la mia presa di posizione. E penso che sia una presa di posizione consistente.

Algunos eran de una ignorancia monumental, llegaban a la universidad sin poder situar a Chile en un mapa y seguramente tampoco eran capaces de situar su propio país en el mundo: creían que Estados Unidos era el mundo.

I find it a lot with Australian and New Zealand comics, and people from that part of the world, we share quite a similar sense of humour I think.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports that myth.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.