Worldview Quotes - Page 3

• In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside of her, just like we are in life. These pressures and circumstances shape character. Who your parents are determines your genetic make up: your skin color, your sex, your height, weight. Where you are raised does affect your worldview either positively or negatively, your accent. Your economic class affects where you go to school, what you eat, where you sleep.

  James Franco

  Book, School, Character

  Source: i-d.vice.com

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• I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Feminist, Looks, World

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Storyteller". Interview with Janell Hobson, msmagazine.com. March 6, 2015.

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• As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does not mean that we should automatically accept that worldview. Good art heightens the impact of that worldview, but it does not make it true.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, Mean

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• I don't write for Christians. I write for people. I write so that if a Christian hears my music, they're going to be encouraged because I'm writing from the Christian worldview.

  Dominic Balli

  Christian, Writing, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Can I share with you my worldview? All of humankind has one thing in common: the sandwich. I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich.

  LIZ

  Believe, Sandwiches, Want

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• [Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in God's creative power in having brought it all into being in the first place, I find that studying the natural world is an opportunity to observe the majesty, the elegance, the intricacy of God's creation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Wall, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: inters.org

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• Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

  Rebecca Solnit

  People, Interesting, Choices

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• I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

  Aaron Belz

  Mean, Doe, Language

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Philosophy, Men, Views

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• The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Running, Stupid, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.309, Macmillan

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• For me, my faith dictates everything I do, so no matter what I'm saying in my art, my faith is the driver for that. That's what I'd encourage people to understand as they listen to my music. It's distinct. My worldview bleeds through my music.

  LeCrae

  Art, People, Matter

  "Lecrae on rap, theology and Billboard success". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.religionnews.com. September 26, 2014.

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• Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

  Seth Godin

  Smart, Believe, People

  Seth Godin (2009). “All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All”, p.14, Penguin

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• Today, entrepreneurs are at the forefront of a new era in which organizations put talent at the heart of their business models. And they have no choice. Having grown up surrounded by entrepreneurial freedoms, workers expect flexibility. They insist on collaboration. They demand meaning. Creating an environment that brings out the entrepreneurial instincts in your workforce - a worldview we might call "employeeship"- is key.

  Linda Rottenberg

  Heart, Choices, Entrepreneur

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

  Charles Colson

  Today, Christianity, Results

  Charles W. Colson, Anne Morse (2006). “The One Year Devotions for People of Purpose”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other.

  John Michael Greer

  Reality, Important, Answers

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• The most fundamental decision we all face over the course of our lives is what we will recognize as the ultimate reality, the uncaused source and cause of our existence. Everything else in our worldview depends on that initial decision. The Bible speaks of this foundational choice in terms of who or what we worship. We must all answer the challenge Joshua issued to the Israelites as they were poised to enter the Promised Land: "Choose this day whom you will serve" (Josh. 24:15).

  Nancy Pearcey

  Reality, Land, Choices

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.35, David C Cook

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• Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Children, Thinking

  "Finding Truth: An Interview with Nancy Pearcey". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

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• The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures.

  Peter Kreeft

  Squinting, Cynical, Vision

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• There was a time when 'fear of God' meant piety, or at least conscience. Today, it more accurately describes the worldview of secular liberals who get itchy and twitchy at any reminder of our religious roots as a nation.

  Mona Charen

  Religious, Roots, Today

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• Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.

  David Oyelowo

  Artist, Projects

  Source: decentfilms.com

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• The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

  Morley Safer

  Travel, Views, World

  Morley Safer (1990). “Flashbacks: on returning to Vietnam”, Random House Inc

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• I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you meet the one. It just clicks. Clicking is important in a relationship. When you click, you share the same passion and worldviews, ambitions and dreams. You are willing to share your inner thoughts, fears, desires and secrets. When you click, your partner makes you comfortable in your skin, he or she knows what you need even you're quiet, knows when to give advice and when to just listen. When you click, you allow your partner to steadily be what they desire to be, while you be a steady presence

  Rita Zahara

  Friendship, Dream, Passion

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• It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.

  Naomi Klein

  Reality, Today, Facts

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Challenges, Doe, Christianity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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