The World Quotes - Page 3

Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the Gospel truth.

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less... Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory.

The world I once knew as a boy has changed dramatically . . . I don’t even recognize the world we live in today.

The earth keeps turning but it never says why.

Do not expect me to fall in with the evil customs and ways of the world. I am in Rome, but I will not do as Rome does. I am an alien, a stranger, and a foreigner. My citizenship is in heaven.

While we’re looking up to see the rainbow—God’s promises—we’re ignoring floodwaters rising. While we’re looking down to see how close we can get to the edge of the world without being trapped by Satan, we’re taking our eyes off of Christ.

The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed.

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.

As for the world system of evil, we are to be separated from it. This then is our problem: to associate with and love those who are involved in the world without being contaminated, influenced, or swayed by them. This distinction can be achieved only by a close walk with Christ, by constant prayer, and by seeking the Holy Spirit’s leadership every hour of the day. We are in the world, but the world is not to be in us.

Those who believe [in Christ] are expected to be different from the world . . . they are members of a new society.