The World Quotes

It is easy for Christians to allow themselves to be squeezed into the world’s mold . . . When nonbelievers see nothing different in the lifestyle of believers, they wonder if our profession of faith is sincere.

~ Billy Graham

Those who believe [in Christ] are expected to be different from the world . . . they are members of a new society.

~ Billy Graham

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world.

~ Billy Graham

Have you fallen into the world’s trap, following its self-indulgent goals and driven by its self-centered motives? It can happen without you even being aware of it. Make sure Christ is first in your life, and make it your goal to live according to His Word.

~ Billy Graham

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

~ Billy Graham

There are so many professing Christians who are walking hand in hand with the world that you cannot tell the difference between the Christian and the unbeliever. This should never be.

~ Billy Graham

As Christians, we are not to get our worlds mixed up . . . We are not to mingle with the world, but we are to witness to the world.

~ Billy Graham

The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond against a rough background. He should be more wholesome than anyone else. He should be poised, cultured, courteous, gracious, but firm in the things that he does and does not do. He should laugh and be radiant, but he should refuse to allow the world to pull him down to its level.

~ Billy Graham

Do not expect me to fall in with the evil customs and ways of the world. I am in Rome, but I will not do as Rome does. I am an alien, a stranger, and a foreigner. My citizenship is in heaven.

~ Billy Graham

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.

~ Billy Graham

When the Christian brings the standards of Jesus Christ to bear upon life in a material and secular world, it is often resented. Because the moral and spiritual demands of Jesus Christ are so high, they often set the Christian “apart.

~ Billy Graham

Worldliness is actually a spirit, an atmosphere, an influence permeating the whole of life and human society, and it needs to be guarded against constantly and strenuously.

~ Billy Graham

In the world in which we live, we give most attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul . . . We become fat physically and materially, while spiritually we are lean, weak, and anemic.

~ Billy Graham

Too many people today want a brotherly worldin which they can remain unbrotherly, a decent world in which they can live indecently. Too many individuals want economic security without spiritual security.

~ Billy Graham

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

~ Billy Graham

The entire world is in turmoil. We are living in a time of enormous conflict and cultural transformation. We have been stunned by shockwaves of change in nation after nation, all around the globe.

~ Billy Graham

Too many people want to have one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom of God, and it is like straddling a fence. You are not happy either way. Declare yourself for Christ.

~ Billy Graham

Worldliness doesn’t fall like an avalanche upon a person and sweep him or her away. It is the steady drip, drip, drip of the water that wears away the stone. The world is exerting a steady pressure on us every day. Most of us would go down under it, if it weren’t for the Holy Spirit who lives inside us, and holds us up, and keeps us.

~ Billy Graham

The Bible teaches that we are to live in this world, but we are not to partake of the evils of the world. We are to be separated from the world of evil. When I face something in the world, I ask: “Does it violate any principle of Scripture? Does it take the keen edge off my Christian life? Can I ask God’s blessing on it? Will it be a stumbling block to others? Would I like to be there, or reading that, or be watching that, if Christ should return at that time?

~ Billy Graham

We act as if it doesn’t matter how we live or what we think or say. We have moved in with the world, and we have allowed the world to penetrate the way we live. So the things that we used to call sin no longer seem to be sin to us.

~ Billy Graham

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

~ Billy Graham

It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.

~ Billy Graham

We don’t live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.

~ Billy Graham

Much of the world believes little or nothing. People are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, emptiness, and meaninglessness have gripped much of the world—and even the church . . . By contrast, our Pilgrim forebears stand as shining examples of men who were narrow but deep, certain of what they believed, unswerving in their loyalty, and passionately dedicated to the God they trusted, and for whom they would willingly have died.

~ Billy Graham

Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.

~ Billy Graham

Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.

~ Billy Graham

We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

~ Justin Alcala

We have to change the world to fit us, not the other way around.

~ Halt And Catch Fire

Look up at the moon, don't think about yourself.

~ Marty Rubin

The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.

~ Kathryn Schulz

The world needs to witness the best positive version of you, because being fake doesn't do the world any good.

~ Hafiz

I used to believe that the world is a journey that takes you on a mystical ride across time. I don't anymore.

~ Girl234

Ten minutes ago, Frank though he was going to prison. Now he knows he’s not, and part of him thinks he should just be glad he’s getting out of this at all, but he’s not. He’s not glad. He’s furious. He’s known the world is broken for a long time, he’s known that, but sometimes he’s amazed at how broken; even now, at this point in his life, nearing fifty years old, he can stumble across something that makes him realize all over again that the world is not only broken, but beyond fixing. No amount of glue can ever make it right. And yet, you have to focus on your little part of it, don’t you? You have to focus on your little corner of the world and glue what cracks you can. Otherwise there’s no hope at all.

~ Ryan David Jahn

justice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh at it

~ Don Marquis

Unconditional love is something people achieve once they’ve given themselves over completely to someone. Once they’ve decided that no matter what the other person does, they will always love them.

~ Sarah Noffke

The earth keeps turning but it never says why.

~ Marty Rubin

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone.

~ Crystal Woods

I get it. I haven't seen much of the real world yet. But let's say I do get out there... and it turns out that it's not even worth seeing? Or even worse.. what if it's so ugly and cruel that I can barely stand to look? What if I only meet idiots and the depraved? What's that going to teach me? What can I learn from that?

~ Naoyuki Ochiai

Are we letting the world influence the church more than the church is affecting those in the world?

~ Betty S. Bender