Quotes About Worldview

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

We see the world through our experience.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

It should come as no surprise that the defense of racial slavery gave rise to a profoundly reactionary worldview.

Maybe, kneeling down to atoms, they're becoming atom-sized in their souls. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses--the whole world over his fence.

Liza accepted the world as she accepted the Bible, with all of its paradoxes and its reverses. She did not like death but she knew it existed, and when it came it did not surprise her.

Peut-être le savoir est-il trop grand, mais peut-être aussi l'homme devient-il trop petit. Peut-être qu'à force de s'agenouiller devant les atomes il finit par avoir une âme de la taille de ce qu'il adore. Peut-être le spécialiste n'est-il qu'un lâche qui a peur de regarder le monde extérieur à sa petite cage. Pensez à ce qu'il perd, votre spécialiste : le monde entier qui palpite de l'autre côté de sa clôture.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don't view our faith through the eyes of culture.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

Without inquiring too deeply into the causes which make it possible to find subjects of gaiety always close at hand, the proof of that possibility can be found in the fact that persons of sensitive intelligence are capable of finding comic potentialities in everything and everybody, thereby demonstrating that if some people hold the belief that there is very little that is laughable in the world, the reason is that they lack the ability to find it.

how we try to make sense of the world and of our place in it—it should be obvious that our approach is fundamentally limited in scope. This realization should open doors, not close them, since it makes the search for knowledge an open-ended pursuit, an endless romance with the unknown.