Quotes about Worldview

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Tim Keller writes, "When the church as a whole is no longer seen as speaking to questions that transcend politics, and when it is no longer united by a common faith that transcends politics, then the world sees strong evidence that Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx were right, that religion is really just a cover for people wanting to get their way in the world."13

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate.

Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it's testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don't.

The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

There is no area of life that does not have a biblical worldview attached to it.

Reading church history and allowing it to influence our worldview reassures us not only that God has promised to be with us, but that he has delivered on this promise to every generation of believers regardless of the trials and tribulations of their time.