Wolters challenges his readers to rethink the foundational principles of the way they see the world. While his worldview attempts to be comprehensive in scope and trace everything back to the sovereignty of God, it fails to answer every question and even raises some new ones. And yet it remains (20 years after originally seeing print), a challenge in evaluating how we see this world and how our worldviews affect our lives, which they undoubtedly do.

If your action is out of tune with your beliefs, you tend to change either your actions or your beliefs. You cannot maintain your integrity (or your mental health) for long if you make no effort to resolve the conflict. [6]

The same Creator God and the same sovereign power that called the cosmos into existence in the beginning has kept the cosmos in existence from moment to moment to this very day. [13]

God does not make junk, and we dishonor the Creator if we take a negative view of the work of his hands when he himself takes such a positive view. In fact, so positive a view did he take of what he had created that he refused to scrap it when mankind spoiled it, but determined instead, at the cost of his Son’s life, to make it new and good again. God does not make junk, and he does not junk what he has made. [48] 

What was formed in creation has been historically deformed by sin and must be reformed in Christ. [91]

The Gospel is a redirecting power. It is not first of all doctrine or theology, nor is it worldview, but it is the renewing power of God unto salvation. The gospel is the instrument of God’s Spirit to restore all of creation. [121] 

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