Quotes about World

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But nothing is more sleepy and sheepish than the Church Mumbling. Christ's words roused His enemies to murder and His friends to martyrdom. Our words reassure both sides and send them to sleep. He put the world in a daze. We put it in a doze.

The Church has always had a conservative head and a liberal heart, and the world has never understood her, just as it never understood Christ.