Quotes about World

But "To Be Near Unto God" in the midst of busy avocations yields its sweetest blessedness when it is cultivated in the face of sin and the world, as an oasis in the desert of life.

Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Just as the church needs members with different skills, our world must have various forms of labor, interdependent and thus valuable. A world full of ministers would be without churches, bread for the Lord's Supper, and printed Bibles to read.

The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just an addition to the all-consuming goal, that they would attain their own personal peace and affluence.

We live on a planet of limited resources - an abstract notion for some of the world's population, but for many of the poorest and most vulnerable, those limits are all too real.

Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of people.

What a bitter, bitter thing is the service of Satan, even in this world!

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.