Top 607 Worldly Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.
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.
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.
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.
If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.
Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.
The funny thing is that I've known since I was 7 years old that I was never going to have kids. I always imagined myself as this worldly, traveling gypsy lady.
The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
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.
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.
It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them
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?
Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
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.
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.
Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?
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.
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
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.
For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.
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.
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.
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.
There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.
The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.
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.
A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
I went to a high school that taught me to be more worldly. The whole curriculum was very globally based. We learned a lot about other cultures and reflected on them.
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.
Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.
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.
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.
A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.
When you're educated, it allows you to be more worldly. It's more than just what happens in a classroom.
The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.
Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.
God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.
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.
That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.
. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.
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.
The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.
Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.
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.
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.
A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
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.
In elite gymnastics, I was surrounded by this bubble, that gymnastics was literally all I knew, and I'd like to know about worldly issues.
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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.
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.
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.
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.
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.
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.
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.
I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
