Top Worldview Quotes

The present importance of the Book of Job cannot be expressed adequately even by saying that it is the most interesting of ancient books. We may almost say of the Book of Job that it is the most inter...

There is light in the shadow just as there is shadow in the light and although many disclaim these shadows as everything unpleasant in the world, it cannot be so, it is not so. Just as there is beauty...

Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

That is the problem with our world. Nobody trusts anybody. We are just waiting for somebody to save us.

Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

there is something magical and addicting about going somewhere, being alone, and finding yourself in parts of the world you never knew existed, finding parts of yourself you never knew you would find.

Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along! Tally laughed. So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manu...

There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animat...

Moshup made this island He dragged his toe through the water and cut this land from the mainland. He went on then, with much animation, to relate a fabulous tale of giants and whales and shape-shiftin...

A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of whic...