Top 1200 Worldly Desires Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.

I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion.

A country doesn't need a businessman to run it: it needs a heartful, worldly, compassionate leader.

I'm not doing 'Once' to prove that I'm worldly or cultured. I just love the role.

Who you really are is Non-Physical Energy focused in a physical body, knowing full well that all is well and always has been, and always will be. You are here to experience the supreme pleasure of concluding new desires, and then of bringing yourself into vibrational alignment with the new desires that you've concluded, for the purpose of taking thought beyond that which it has been before.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are not a burden to anyone, and indeed can give to others, as St. Paul the Apostle advises (cf. I Thess. 2:9; Eph. 4:28). In this manner you will overcome the demon of listlessness and drive away all the desires suggested by the enemy; for the demon of listlessness takes advantage of idleness. 'Every idle man is full of desires' (Prov. 13:4 LXX).

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

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

The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus.

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

The women who are pool waitresses are another worldly species. They're half-desert lizards. They never have sunburns.

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

The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.

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

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

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

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

If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you'll never realize God.

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

There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.

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

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

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]

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

Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.

Being able to recognize which of your desires are vital to pursue and which ones are not is often less than easy. This is precisely why the ancient sages counseled that we practice yoga. Their point was a very practical one: You are best able to discern which of your many desires should (and should not) be responded to when your mind is calm and tranquil.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

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

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

My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set.

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

Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.

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

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

If the desires are cut off one by one, then there is peace. When the desires go one by one then there is die-mind. Then there is peace of mind.

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

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

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

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

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.

I have become worldly-wise and mature after participating in 'Bigg Boss.'

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

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

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

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

You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A reality shaped around your own desires - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

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

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

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