There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by.… — Gerard Majella Copy Share Image
When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Worldliness in the church is a lot more pervasive than a lack of passion for evangelism. Nevertheless, one of the results of… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Being salt and light demands two things: we practice purity in the midst of a fallen world and yet we live in… — David Kinnaman Copy Share Image
We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“The law of our being is Love of Life, and its interests and adornments; love of the world in which our lot… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests,… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel. — G. C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil. When one does not profess Jesus Christ, one professes the worldliness of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
“worldliness, which is a homicidal attitude. Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the person! It kills the Church! PART NINE” — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God - holy, separated and spiritually enlightened… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Worldliness is often defined in terms of certain behaviors, such as gambling, going to certain movies, wearing certain kinds of clothes, and… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Funny how we do not realize the true value and legacy of a living icon until they suddenly pass away. Truth is,… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief.… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
“It is so very sad to find a worldly Christian who is sure—according to him or her—of that security that the faith… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I love Iain Murray's definition of worldliness: towards the end of Evangelicalism Divided, he says that worldliness consists of loving idols and… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
