Quotes about World
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
— St. Augustine
Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.
— Bo Sanchez
God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
— DA Carson
Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.
— Joseph Alleine
The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.
— Joseph Alleine
When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow — yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.
— Eugene Peterson
The power that the world acknowledges comes out of the mouth of a gun; the power that the person of faith respects comes from the mouth of Christ.
— Eugene Peterson
Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
— Eugene Peterson
the Bible, all of it, is livable; it is the text for living our lives. It reveals a God-created, God-ordered, God-blessed world in which we find ourselves at home and whole.
— Eugene Peterson
Real life, the real world, is a vast theater of salvation, directed by our wise and totally involved God.
— Eugene Peterson
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't be complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us.
— Eugene Peterson
Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.
— Eugene Peterson