So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.
Education brightens a darkened world.
The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.
When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.
Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.
We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.
Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.
You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.