the-world

In the struggle for righteousness, there is nothing more helpful than being passionately in tune with Christ through His Spirit and being passionately committed to doing His will. It has been said that in order to tune in to God__ voice, we must tune out this world__ noise.

Jesus told His disciples that the __orld,_ meaning the world system, the political and social order organized apart from God, will despise Christians.

Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the Gospel truth.

It is only the consecrated, Spirit-filled Christian who can have victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. It is the Holy Spirit who will do the fighting for you.

Those who have actually experienced daily fellowship with Christ know that it surpasses all worldly activities.

Our world needs to be touched by Christians who are Spirit-filled, Spirit-led, and Spirit-empowered.

We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is __on__ do it.

When we come to Christ, God calls us out of this world__ sin and confusion. But then He sends us back into the world__ot to share any longer in its sin and spiritual darkness, but to bear witness to the light of Christ.

We live in a hostile world that constantly seeks to pull us away from God.

There are no new sins__nly new sinners. There are no new crimes__nly new criminals, No new evils__nly new evildoers. No new pleasures__nly new pleasure seekers. We must distinguish between wholesome, God-ordained pleasure and sinful, worldly pleasure.

We__e heading for a world showdown, a worldwide confrontation. If we think we can solve our problems without God, then we__e living in a fool__ paradise.

We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.

My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos. It is a hopeless task.

Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold back, to yield and then to tease with a single page _ but then the world is the same way, isn__ it. The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private language and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets being "eternal children", etc, are all accurate. They believe, whatever they may say, that art and words can change the world.