Quotes About World

Modeling the world mathematically is as uniquely a human trait as language or art, but you would rarely find anyone complaining of being "reduced to a poem" or "reduced to a painting.

People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.

Imagination, as Napoleon once remarked, rules the world. One of our great problems is that we have relegated imagination to various artsy ghettos, there to let it play. But imagination, including—especially including—artistic imagination, has to be understood as a practical science. It must govern everything, and if it is detached from the praxis of life and then uprooted, it goes off to the art museums to die. For

Chesterton knew that loving and fighting go together. Loving something while being unwilling to fight for it would be better categorized as lust. And at the same time, a man who sees the world in wisdom knows that loving the world means that he must be willing to fight the world. Loving the world means fighting for the world, and loving the world also means fighting the world.

The world is a very different place from what it was two thousand years ago, much of it for the better, but we are still taking the lives of inconvenient infants. The work that Jesus came to do, that of throwing down all the idols, is not yet complete.

In the long run, pragmatism doesn't work. Focusing on the GDP alone is bad for the GDP. It does not profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul, and there is an additional sting when he then loses the world too. Whatever you worship in place of God is another thing you lose. Whatever you surrender gladly to Him is returned to you, pressed down, shaken, and running over.

The church is in the world the way a ship is in the ocean, and that is the way it should be. But bad things start happening when the ocean gets into the ship.

This is the throne of David, occupied by Christ. Christ is the king of the world because of the resurrection and not as a result of the second coming. Christ is king now, and not just later.

Husbands, the world is watching you. You are to model what the saving looks like. Wives, the world is watching you. You are to model what the salvation looks like. Why is the world not streaming to the rod of Jesse? Why are the nations not turning away from their folly? Is it because the gospel the Church is presenting to them is a gospel that looks too much like our marriages?

The need of the hour is for the Church to help establish a defined counterculture. This requires much more than defined denominational boundaries, or sectarian carve-outs. There needs to be a defined center (the Church), a defined staging area (the kingdom), and a defined mission field (the world).

Talking about what "religion" does in the world is like defining "medicine" as "pills in bottles." I am not sure you should take that. My aunt took a pill from a bottle once and was sick for a week.

Remember that Jesus has a body in this world. You are His hands and feet. But remember also that His hands and feet were pierced.

Like the trees and winds and waters, we pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves....that the world is changed.

No one can save the world unless those who are determined to destroy it are dead

Ele tem Pensamentos que respondem a todas as necessidades que o Seu Filho percebe, embora Ele não as veja. 5 Pois o Amor tem que dar, e aquilo que é dado em Seu Nome assume a forma mais útil num mundo de formas.

5 A salvação do mundo depende de ti que podes perdoar. 6 Essa é a tua função aqui.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: «Los límites de mi lenguaje son los límites de mi mundo».

Anti-Semites (American Jews included) pressure Israel to correct its ego and show the whole world their method of correction.

Do you see what I mean?… They've proved they ARE persons, no matter how small, And their whole world was saved by the Smallest of All!

World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night.

our favorite lake in New Hampshire, funnily enough right where Adam and Nan both grew up. Small world.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.