Worldly Quotes

379 quotes by 287 authors

I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they… — Jean de la Bruyere
It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly… — Harper Lee
We all have personalities, but in football a lot of times you don't talk about that because you want to focus more on the grit… — Dhani Jones
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church. — Pope Francis
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of… — Pope Francis
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice… — George Eliot
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude. — Marianne Faithfull
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very… — Etta James
I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up… — Cyndi Lauper
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly… — William Law
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the… — William Law
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town,… — Felix Mendelssohn
You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have… — Knute Nelson
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong. — Knute Nelson
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. — Francis Quarles
Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The… — Mitt Romney
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a… — Laurence Sterne
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly,… — Emanuel Swedenborg
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. — Henry David Thoreau
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high… — Henry David Thoreau

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