Quotes About World

To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world—an ability denied to any other physical being.

divine grace is a gift, but not one we get to keep. Christ sends us into the world as he was sent: to embody God's good news as we tell it, to enact the divine plan of salvation in word and deed.

The church's first witness, as the theologian John Howard Yoder reminds us, is the way we live before the eyes of the watching world.4 You may recall that, two nights before the Passover, Jesus was having supper at the house of Simon the leper, when in walked a woman with an alabaster jar. She smashed it and poured its precious contents of nard—worth about $35,000 in today's dollars—over Jesus.

If inanimate objects are left to stand in their world, and are not invited out to mingle with our sense of self, they will quietly console and delight us. But to bind possessions up closely with the mind is less than fair to both.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Surely, it would not take much to distinguish between the character of a person who foresaw a world ending "not with a bang but a whimper," and one who feared some mighty holocaust, as were the planets ripped into smithereens by explosions from within.

Your mind, however, remained the same. The memories and thought patterns within it that had been twisted and warped by years of darkness and sin were left perfectly intact. In other words, that brand-new spirit within you suddenly found itself trying to work with a mind that had been totally programmed by the world!

We have allowed Satan to flip the coin over on the other side and put the Body of Christ in debt to the world. In doing this, we have allowed them to possess us. The borrower is servant to the lender. Many

1 JOHN 4:4 4 YE ARE OF GOD, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

The awfulness of Monday mornings is the world's greatest common denominator. To the millionaire and the coolie it is the same, because there can be nothing worse.

The awfulness of Monday morning is the world's great common denominator.

The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.

Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World," said the Rat. "And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.

A reactionary is someone with a clear and comprehensive vision of an ideal world we have lost.

I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other." I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round

The angel lay in the little thicket. It had no need of love. There was nothing anywhere in the world could startle it. We can lie here with the angel if we like. It couldn't have hurt much when they slit its throat.

The Bible indicates that human beings can attain genuine knowledge of God, the self, and the world.30 God created both the world and humankind and his objective existence is the fixed reference point that makes authentic knowledge possible.

Impermanence is the way of reality. The world changes. We ourselves change. Change is the only truth. Therefore, to hold on to a fixed idea, concept, doctrine, or opinion is like committing spiritual suicide.

No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.

We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.

readers to consider Jesus as their wise teacher. Jesus the rabbi insists that true faith needs to be shown in deeds of mercy and justice. He sums up his ethic with a revision of Old Testament emphases: "Pure religion, undefiled before God our Father, is this — to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world" (James 1:27).

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the Nation and gentler the face of the world.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.