Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects… — Fethullah Gulen 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
Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought.… — Jamling Tenzing Norgay Copy Share Image
If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss,… — Nagarjun Copy Share Image
But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep… — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
We have in effect renounced our Worldly citizenship when we receive the King of Kings and the Prince of Peace, Lord of… — David Berg Copy Share Image
“Here’s the vast difference between a godly person and a worldly person. A worldly person just tries to “make it through” dark… — Raj Kosaraju Copy Share Image
Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make… — Isabella Macdonald Alden Copy Share Image
Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream.… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the… — Samuel Wilberforce Copy Share Image
For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs.… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Although the church accomplishes many tasks, its only message to the world is the gospel of Christ. Everything else we do is… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels. In terms of worldly affairs, America is very strong. Even if it… — Mohammed Omar 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
Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
