James W. Sire Quotes

• To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church. To glorify God is to reveal his character by being who we were created to be-the embodiment of the image of God in human form.

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  Religious, Character, Singing

  James W. Sire (2011). “The Universe Next Door (Large Print 16pt)”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and more and have our being.

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  Heart, Commitment, Reality

  James W. Sire (2015). “Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept”, p.141, InterVarsity Press

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• When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness, their watchmen would shout halt when they trespassed the law. Now their watchmen are silent. They serve no king and protect no kingdom.

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  Kings, Character, Law

  James W. Sire (2011). “The Universe Next Door (Large Print 16pt)”, p.152, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Two

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• Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

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  Lying, Lies Truth, Ideology

  James W. Sire (2000). “Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling”, p.215, InterVarsity Press

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• For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it.

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  Believe, Common Experience, Propositions

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• A case can certainly be made that Christians bear a major responsibility for our ecological crisis. But the fault is not their biblical but their unbiblical view of nature. Christians have long failed to understand what the Bible really teaches concerning nature and our responsibility for it. For this there is no excuse. Repentance must be our first response. Our second response must then be to right the wrongs of our faulty understanding and act accordingly. We are all responsible to know what can be known of God's will for nature, and we are then responsible to act on that knowledge.

  James W. Sire

  Christian, Responsibility, Biblical

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