People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. We… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. — Norbert of Xanten Copy Share Image
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
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
Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light. — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days… — Neil Gaiman 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
O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the… — William Wilberforce 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
I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. — Blaise Pascal 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
Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the… — Uthman ibn Affan Copy Share Image
