Quotes About World

A verdade está inscrita na estrutura do mundo, apenas temos de saber lê-la.

Sábio é o que se contenta com o espetáculo do mundo

El punto es que el mundo no está cambiando, sino que ya cambió, y despreciar lo nuevo es la cosa más vieja de todas

The world is a mere succession of fortunes made and lost, lessons learned and forgotten and learned again.)

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

To be trained for the kingdom is to be trained to see the world from the perspective of God's future—and therefore askew from what the world counts as common sense.

the church is to find its identity and vocation by recognizing its role within the cosmic drama of God's reconciliation of the world to himself.

God overcomes the world not through a show of force but through the suffering and death of Jesus, "the faithful witness [martys]" (1:5).

Paul understood himself as a Jew sent by the God of Israel to the world of Gentile "outsiders" for the purpose of declaring to them the message of eschatological salvation promised in Israel's Scriptures - preeminently Isaiah - to the whole world.

one cannot become a follower of Jesus in this Gospel's narrative world without surrendering a position of privilege.

The children of God (you know) are heirs of the world, and these things which the wicked have they enjoy by usurpation.

In the first place, John's work is a prophetic apocalypse in that it communicates a disclosure of a transcendent perspective on this world.

A second important sense in which Revelation stands in the tradition of the Jewish apocalypses is that it shares the question which concerned so many of the latter: who is Lord over the world?

The alternative vision of the world which Revelation claims to be orientated to the truth is strongly theocentric

When the slaughtered Lamb is seen `in the midst of' the divine throne in heaven (5:6; cf. 7:17), the meaning is that Christ's sacrificial death belongs to the way God rules the world.

At the outset of Jesus's ministry God tore apart the curtain of the heavens in order to come down and be present and active in Jesus. At Jesus's death he tore apart the curtain in the temple in order to come out and be present and active through Jesus in the world at large.

As well as their pervasive allusion to the Old Testament, the images of Revelation also echo mythological images from its contemporary world.

The point is not to predict a sequence of events. The point is to evoke and to explore the meaning of the divine judgment which is impending on the sinful world.

We are members of the world and of the church, and must labour to do good to many; and therefore we have greater work to do on earth, than merely securing our own salvation.

You come hither to learn to die, I am not the only person that must go this way: I can assure you, that your whole life, be it ever so long, is little enough to prepare for death. Have a care of this vain deceitful world and the lusts of the flesh: Be sure you choose God for your portion, heaven for your home, God's glory for your end, his word for your rule, and then you need never fear but we shall meet with comfort.

When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374) [.]

We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)?

It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen… New Orleans. Mark Twain