With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. Let the favour be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. Isaiah 2:9-10.
The world has a lot of glitter, but it doesn’t have the glow. > Bill Frye.
The ship’s place is in the sea, but God pity the sea when the sea gets into it. The Christian’s place is in the world, but God pity the Christian if the world gets the best of him. > Author Unknown.
If Christians withdraw from society because of the bewildering nature of its problems, they will soon lose the right to be heard. > Gary R. Collins and James F. Jekel.
The view we entertain of God will determine our view of the world. > Christoph Ernst Luthardt.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. > W. R. Inge.
In this society we save whales, we save timber wolves and bald eagles and Coke bottles. Yet, everyone wanted to throw away my baby. > Victoria, a pregnant woman.
The world hopes for the best but Jesus Christ offers the best hope. > John Wesley White.
What the soul is in the body, this the Christians are in the world. Christians hold the world together. > Letter to Diognetus.
The world charged with the grandeur of God. > Gerald Manley Hopkins.
To deny the prevalence of pain in the world and the perennial popularity of evil. To abdicate responsibility for them by assuming that God will take care of them very nicely on his own… To dismiss them or to encourage others to dismiss them by stressing the promise of pie in the sky… To maintain your faith by refusing to face any nasty fact that threatens it. These are all ways of escaping reality through religion and should be denounced right along with such other modes of escape as liquor, drugs, TV, or any simplistic optimism such as communism, anticommunism, jingoism, rugged individualism, moralism, idealism, and so on, which assume that if everybody would only see it our way, evil would vanish and all would be sweetness and light. > Frederick Buechner.
See also Matthew 5:13-16; Romans 6:23; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15-17.
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