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• The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Art, Vision, World

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

  Rick Warren

  Motivation, Inspiration, Betting

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• Some people suggest that a worldview is like a set of glasses that color the way you see the world around you. A Christian interprets the world one way, and an atheist interprets the same world a completely different way since he's looking through different worldview "glasses."

  Greg Koukl

  Christian, Atheist, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word. The same worldview shift that is demanded by the resurrection of Jesus is the shift that will enable us to transform the world.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Powerful, Different

  FaceBook post by N. T. Wright from Dec 18, 2012

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• 'Biblical worldview'. The term means literally a 'view of the world', a biblically informed perspective on all of reality. A worldview is like a mental map that tells you how to navigate the world effectively. It is the imprint of God's objective truth on our inner life.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Mean, Biblical, Reality

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• We all construct worldviews that give us a sense of meaning. Mostly it is about belonging to a group and having a sense of identity and purpose.

  Carmen Lawrence

  Giving, Identity, Groups

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• The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Funny, Sarcastic, Atheist

  River Out of Eden ch. 4 (1995)

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• How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

  Michael Shermer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Doe

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• You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

  Lee Strobel

  Shifting, Moral, Sand

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

  J. Budziszewski

  Reality, Doe, Shapes

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• The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Views, History, Church

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• The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.

  Arshile Gorky

  Dream, Art, Eye

  "Abstract Expressionism" by Barbara Hess (p.10), 2005.

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• In Christian engagement, the goal is to win the person
  who is of the other worldview - not to destroy the person.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Winning, Goal

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jun 03, 2013

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• The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently of our perspectives and interests.

  Mark Earley

  Perspective, Historical, Moral

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• That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior....I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality...If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane.

  Newt Gingrich

  Morning, Reality, Thinking

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• A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Men, Helping

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• Letting the Bible speak for itself, that is, letting it speak in its own terms, includes letting the Bible speak from within its own worldview rather than merely our own.

  Vern Poythress

  Speak, Term

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• We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Integrity, Giving

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.532, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way.

  James Finn Garner

  Girl, Stress, Riding

  "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times (Little Red Riding Hood - A Politically Correct Fairy Tale)". Book by James Finn Garner, 1994.

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• The Muslim Brotherhood is a global movement whose members cooperate with each other throughout the world, based on the same religious worldview - the spread of Islam, until it rules the world.

  Mohammed Mahdi Akef

  Religious, Brotherhood, Islam

  Interview with the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat, an international Arab daily, December 11, 2005.

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• We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

  Anita Roddick

  Animal, Simple, Age

  "Business as Unusual, continued: deck here, too" by Anita Roddick, www.motherjones.com. January 19, 2001.

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• Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  People, Evil, Ends

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• Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard-or try to turn back-the measureable advances that we have made.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, Science, Important

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.268, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of messages and ideas from other cultures that are alien to the worldview of the biblical writers. Therefore, in order fully to understand the Bible and allow the Bible to absorb the world (rather than the world - culture - absorb the Bible) we must practice an "archaeology" of the biblical writers' implicit, assumed view of reality.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Eye, Biblical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible
  study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, Believe, Reality

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.37, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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