Quotes about Worldly

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. Votes: 6

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed. Votes: 4

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. Votes: 4

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people. Votes: 4

No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. Votes: 4

Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline. Votes: 4

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. Votes: 4

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves. Votes: 4

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. Votes: 4

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. Votes: 4

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties... Votes: 4

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them. Votes: 4

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way. Votes: 4

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit. Votes: 4

Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away from the worldly life and people. Votes: 4

There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing. Votes: 4

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. Votes: 4

So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. Votes: 4

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. Votes: 4

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. Votes: 4

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real! Votes: 4

The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine desire to submit our minds to God's Word - and then to use that knowledge in service to others. Votes: 4

For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And so much patience. But every process has an end and an appointed term. Your healing will come... And like all created things, your worldly pain will die. Votes: 4

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral Votes: 3

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. Votes: 3

Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating. Votes: 3

A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business Votes: 3

O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes. Votes: 3

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally. Votes: 3

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none Votes: 3

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. Votes: 3

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them. Votes: 3

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them. Votes: 3

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height. Votes: 3

Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term. Votes: 3

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. Votes: 3

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone. Votes: 3

The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation. Votes: 3

Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the sky - limitless, infinite. From the bottom of the ocean soar into the vast sky Votes: 3

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. Votes: 3

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced. Votes: 3

Worldly ease is a great foe to faith; it loosens the joints of holy valour, and snaps the sinews of sacred courage. The balloon never rises until the cords are cut; affliction doth this sharp service for believing souls. Votes: 3

We have in effect renounced our Worldly citizenship when we receive the King of Kings and the Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, God of Heaven, Son of Righteousness and the Kingdom of Heaven into our hearts, and have made the Heavenly City our Home! Votes: 3

Burn worldly love, Votes: 0

I dreamt of worldly success once. Votes: 0

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. Votes: 0

The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth. Votes: 0

Death is the end of every worldly pain. Votes: 0

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires. Votes: 0

somehow one must love the world without being worldly. Votes: 0

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one. Votes: 0

Caring for others is the basis of worldly success. Votes: 0

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. Votes: 0

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates. Votes: 0

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things. Votes: 0

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow. Votes: 0

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly. Votes: 0

I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice. Votes: 0

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft. Votes: 0

Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears. Votes: 0

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires. Votes: 0

Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand. Votes: 0

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses. Votes: 0

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties. Votes: 0

Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger. Votes: 0

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind. Votes: 0

If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost. Votes: 0

Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe Votes: 0

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless. Votes: 0

No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light. Votes: 0

Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body. Votes: 0

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success. Votes: 0

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods. Votes: 0

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person. Votes: 0

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. Votes: 0

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise. Votes: 0

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings Votes: 0

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions. Votes: 0

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. Votes: 0

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst Votes: 0

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. Votes: 0

Greatness is worldly fame and success. Laying humble service for humanity's best is true greatness. Votes: 0

Many Christians are "devoured" by worldly interests that distract them from spiritual service to God. Votes: 0

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life. Votes: 0

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise. Votes: 0

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. Votes: 0

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude. Votes: 0

I've come to realize that worldly light brings more popularity in someone's life then spiritual light. Votes: 0

The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner. Votes: 0

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire. Votes: 0

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self. Votes: 0

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them Votes: 0

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language. Votes: 0

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud. Votes: 0

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace. Votes: 0

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality. Votes: 0

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure. Votes: 0

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement. Votes: 0

Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life. Votes: 0

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. Votes: 0

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. Votes: 0

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. Votes: 0

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God? Votes: 0

No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life. Votes: 0

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth. Votes: 0

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God. Votes: 0

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage. Votes: 0

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness. Votes: 0

Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an. Votes: 0

The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality. Votes: 0

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. Votes: 0

If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light. Votes: 0

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. Votes: 0

Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you. Votes: 0

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. Votes: 0

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them. Votes: 0

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters. Votes: 0

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. Votes: 0

For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine. Votes: 0

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance. Votes: 0

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness. Votes: 0

Why the obsession with worldly possessions ? When it's your time to go, they have to stay behind, so pack light. Votes: 0

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong. Votes: 0

If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity. Votes: 0

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke. Votes: 0

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him. Votes: 0

Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life. Votes: 0

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos. Votes: 0

. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm. Votes: 0

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one; that is to say it is an internal process, and not external. Votes: 0

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men. Votes: 0

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods. Votes: 0

that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth. Votes: 0

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods. Votes: 0

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. Votes: 0

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior. Votes: 0

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly. Votes: 0

I've purged myself of worldly goods; half my stuff is either being sold or going to charity. I need to go shopping. Votes: 0

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in. Votes: 0

I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching. Votes: 0

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism. Votes: 0

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. Votes: 0

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea. Votes: 0

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness. Votes: 0

Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma. Votes: 0

Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart Votes: 0

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. Votes: 0

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time. Votes: 0

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine. Votes: 0

While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands. Votes: 0

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples. Votes: 0

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge. Votes: 0

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church. Votes: 0

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly. Votes: 0

A person may have no relatives anywhere, but Mahamaya may make him keep a cat and thus make him worldly. This is how She plays! Votes: 0

Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources. Votes: 0

Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world. Votes: 0

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work. Votes: 0

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning. Votes: 0

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly. Votes: 0

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result. Votes: 0

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs. Votes: 0

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc. Votes: 0

Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life. Votes: 0

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side. Votes: 0

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth. Votes: 0

Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace. Votes: 0

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Votes: 0

You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires? Votes: 0

When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life. Votes: 0

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? Votes: 0

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks. Votes: 0

I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble. Votes: 0

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that. Votes: 0

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips. Votes: 0

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death. Votes: 0

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines. Votes: 0

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards. Votes: 0

I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me. Votes: 0

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning. Votes: 0

To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind. Votes: 0

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition. Votes: 0

Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression. Votes: 0

Life's irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open for them to flow to you. Votes: 0

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality. Votes: 0

A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed. Votes: 0

In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods. Votes: 0

When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left. Votes: 0

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down. Votes: 0

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor. Votes: 0

Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us. Votes: 0

Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions. Votes: 0

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck. Votes: 0

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success. Votes: 0

She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise. Votes: 0

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Votes: 0

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis. Votes: 0

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. Votes: 0

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis. Votes: 0

We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness. Votes: 0

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail... Votes: 0

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is *not* by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly. Votes: 0

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. Votes: 0

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking. Votes: 0

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them. Votes: 0

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession. Votes: 0

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening. Votes: 0

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them. Votes: 0

I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point. Votes: 0

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly. Votes: 0

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire Votes: 0

Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth! Votes: 0

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma. Votes: 0

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world. Votes: 0

How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn! Votes: 0

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves. Votes: 0

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. Votes: 0

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices. Votes: 0

It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people. Votes: 0

Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion. Votes: 0

"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored. Votes: 0

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it. Votes: 0

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great. Votes: 0

The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself. Votes: 0

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? Votes: 0

Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims. Votes: 0

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. Votes: 0

Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore. Votes: 0

Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm. Votes: 0

Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought. Votes: 0

Isn't it so sad that a lot of the teenagers of this generation know most of the lyrics to countless of worldly songs, but don't know any verse in the bible? Votes: 0

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke. Votes: 0

How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed. Votes: 0

The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration. Votes: 0

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty. Votes: 0

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom. Votes: 0

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth. Votes: 0

The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them. Votes: 0

We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly. Votes: 0

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure. Votes: 0

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom. Votes: 0

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God. Votes: 0

Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things. Votes: 0

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style. Votes: 0

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly. Votes: 0

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future. Votes: 0

Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters. Votes: 0

Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery. Votes: 0

[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God. Votes: 0

O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing. Votes: 0

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do. Votes: 0

I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer. Votes: 0

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. Votes: 0

But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge. Votes: 0

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. Votes: 0

The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you. Votes: 0

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.' Votes: 0

If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam. Votes: 0

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history. Votes: 0

I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them. Votes: 0

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them. Votes: 0

If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment. Votes: 0

I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers. Votes: 0

Tiny GigglesSilly giggles of laughterI store upon a shelfI give some to otherI save some for myselfI am rich beyond all measureThough not with worldly wealthI store up these treasuresFor my heart and soulful health. Votes: 0

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none). Votes: 0

No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences. Votes: 0