Quotes about World

The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.

What lies between these two ends, these 'last things', is the world, our world, the comprehensible world which has been given us.

whatever is subject to time is limited, is relative, and is made manifest as world by the 'last things' of which we are now cognizant, whether we will or not. 'It is in no way possible to concede to the Pharisees a kingdom of God already appearing among them, wholly on this side of the end' (on Luke 17:20—1, p.

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).

Religion may be a private affair, but the woik and word of God are the reconciliation of the world with God, as it was performed in Jesus Christ.

The area of the Church stands in the world, as outwardly the Church stands in the village or in a city, beside the school, the cinema and the railway station. The Church's language cannot aim at being an end in itself. It must be made clear that the Church exists for the sake of the world, that the light is shining in the darkness.

In virtue of the name of Pontius Pilate being connected with Him, the life and passion of Jesus Christ is an event in the same world history in which our life also takes place.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.

It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.