World Views Quotes

“Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable. Yet I must cling with all my might to … my own soul; must hold on to its mischievous, iconoclastic, out-of-step clown-instincts, no matter how great the storm. And if that plunges me into contradiction and paradox, so be it; I've lived in that messy ocean all my life. I've fished in it for my art. This turbulent sea was the sea outside my bedroom window in Bombay. It is the sea by which I was born, and which I carry within me wherever I go.”
― Salman Rushdie

“You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.”
― Mark David Henderson, The Soul of Atlas

“No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.”
― Debra Driza, MILA 2.0

“If you believe the Bible is true, you ought to know that demons are real. The Bible is filled with references of evil and demons, and Christ repeatedly cast out demons, so I believe the universe is much more complex and mysterious than it may appear to our senses.”
― D.L. Koontz, Crossing Into The Mystic

“Our work calls on us to confront, with our patients and within ourselves, extraordinary human experiences. This confrontation is profoundly humbling in that at all times these experiences challenge the limits of our humanity and our view of the world...”
― John P. Wilson, Countertransference in the Treatment of PTSD

“He doesn't know what the world is like today." The thought that his own conception of the world was so different from his father's was like a protecting wall around his entire being. When his father went out into the street he had only the mosque, the Koran, the other old men in his mind. It was the immutable world of law, the written word, unchanging beneficence, but it was in some way wrinkled and dried up. Whereas when Amar stepped out the door there was the whole vast earth waiting, the live mysterious earth, that belonged to him in a way it could belong to no one else, and where anything at all might happen.”
― Paul Bowles, The Spider's House

“Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“To recognize and comprehend what influences us and others is to function with purpose.”
― Mark David Henderson, The Soul of Atlas

“It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a “Christian” but the truth is we respond from very different world-views”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Lewis's point is that Feurbach and Freud have cast a spell over Western culture, aiming to convince us that they are right and we are wrong. They present their speculative theories as if they were self-evident truths: Only a fool would think there is a God! Lewis helps us see that, in the first place, their approach is only a theory, and in the second, it is not a particularly plausible theory. It's only one way of looking at things - which is what the word theory really means - and there are other (and better) ways of seeing. Lewis's story gives us another way of looking at this "projection" theory, which makes us see that it is far more vulnerable than we might otherwise have realized.”
― Alister McGrath

“Maybe these circumstances entwined our lives even more--two fatherless kids trying to survive in a world that wasn’t made for us to thrive.”
― Kate Vianne Sheridan, Thrones of Ash and Arrows

“Well, it's no harder to be nice than it is to be creepy.
And it's much more fun.”
― Neil Gaiman, Death: The High Cost of Living #1

“My father's world and my mother's world were completely opposite from each other.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me