Quotes about World
Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.
— Gordon Fee
There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.
— Brother Lawrence
The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.
— David Platt
When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life.
— Henrietta Mears
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
— Henri Nouwen
My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Now there is to be such a time here in this world, when God shall be all in all, and in comparison there shall be no such need of creatures as there is now, then the saints should labor to live as near that life as possibly they can, that is, to make up all in God. Oh, that you would consider this mystery, that it may be a reality to the hearts of the saints in such times as these. They would find this privilege that they get by grace worth thousands of worlds.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
For as salt seasons all food and nothing is so pleasant as to please the palate without it: so the bishop is the seasoning of the whole world and of his own Church
— Jerome
George Smeaton wrote, "[The apostle Paul] exhibits the two great counterparts of sin and righteousness as equal realities — the one as the world's ruin, the other as its restoration. The one is a completed fact as well as the
— Jerry Bridges