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
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
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 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
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
“Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth!… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed… — Ellen G. White 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 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
Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. — Frederick William Robertson 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
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
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
“But my kind reader will please to remember that this history has “Vanity Fair” for a title, and that Vanity Fair is… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Even yet Christ Jesus has to lie out in waste places very often, because there is no room for him in the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less… — Swami Vivekananda 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
“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
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
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
I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë 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
