There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru 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
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
You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. — Stella Adler 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
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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. Therefore, if I live in the world,… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth… — William Mountford 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
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
“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
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
God will not accept a divided heart. He must be absolute monarch. There is not room in your heart for two thrones.… — Dwight L. Moody 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
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
“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
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
“Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad through inherited… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange. — Kevin DeYoung 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
Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel. — G. C. Berkouwer 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
