The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in. — John Muir Copy Share Image
The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The dunyâ distracts and preoccupies the heart and body, but al-zuhd (asceticism, not giving importance to worldly things) gives rest to the… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not… — William Law Copy Share Image
Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
“The core tenet of worldly religion and the pure heart of the Lord Jesus are different in that one is centered around… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It is not what I do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through me. God does not want… — Elizabeth Dole Copy Share Image
I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part.… — Leslie Caron Copy Share Image
A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong. — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course,… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“In marriage, at home and everywhere else, one is to remain superfluous. That is where people go in deep into; that is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods. — Kathy Baker Copy Share Image
The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
“Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image