Quotes About World

Either your heart lives in a fundamental, life-shaping awe of the horizontal, physical, created world ("things that are on the earth"), or your heart lives in a foundational vertical awe of God, his work, his grace, and his kingdom. If your

Live in hope because paradise is surely coming, and stop asking this fallen world to be the paradise it will never be.

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There

Here's the real-life, street-level issue: if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

suffering is not an unusual, surprising experience; it's the experience of everyone who lives in this dramatically broken world.

This physical world was designed by God to be one big finger that points you to the only place where your heart will find satisfaction and rest.

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life.

This physical, created world, with all of its sights, sounds, locations, experiences, and relationships, has no capacity to make your heart content. This physical world was designed by God to be one big finger that points you to the only place where your heart will find satisfaction and rest. You heart will rest only when it finds its rest in God, and God alone.

Because earth will never be your savior. This physical, created world, with all of its sights, sounds, locations, experiences, and relationships, has no capacity to make your heart content. This physical world was designed by God to be one big finger that points you to the only place where your heart will find satisfaction and rest. Your heart will rest only when it finds its rest in God, and God alone.

You've been born into a world of authority, and it is not you.

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. JOHN PIPER9

If you mourn the fallenness of your world rather than curse its difficulties, you know that grace has visited you.

The physical world is full of many glories, but the pursuit of these glories must not rule my heart because they have no ability whatsoever to offer me the life that I so desperately need.

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

Did there not sound to us from another region a voice of unearthly strength, yet unspeakably mild and consoling: "In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer,—I have overcome the world!" Who thus speaks, is the Will to life who overcame the world by overcoming himself ;—who thus speaks, that art thou, — — so soon as thou wilt.

While any software system introduces some kind of formalization of the world, HCI (like AI) deals with formalizations of human cognition and activity. These are the issues that have lay at the heart of philosophical debate for centuries. In some ways, it would be hard to imagine a more philosophical enterprise.

within all the religions there is a concern to improve the lot of human beings in this world, which means improving this world. Whatever "salvation" or "enlightenment" or moksha may mean for the interior life of the soul or for life after death, it also is meant to make a difference in life on this earth.

The Law of the Cross saves because it affirms and embodies the "eternal law" that the Dhammapada, in a different context, also realized: "By love alone is hatred dispelled." Jesus would add: a love that must be ready to die rather than hate. Out of such love, and out of such death that this love can require, will hatred be dispelled. Hearts will be changed. And so will our world.

That's it! That's the crux of the problem: Christian dualism has so exaggerated the difference between God and the world that it cannot really show how the two form a unity.

In the early hours of April 18, Einstein's world line reached its final point- life's ultimate singularity.

The tired expression, 'What we need is a good war' was common enough: 'a good war' that would preserve the old world, conservative certainties. In

It has been said, "It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God." Those who know Brother Yun can vouch that he is a humble servant of God who does not want any part of his life to bring glory to himself or man.

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?' 'Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.' (...) 'And?' 'Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.