Worldly Quotes
379 quotes by 287 authors
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I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take…
— John Woolman
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Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects…
— David A. Bednar
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I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of…
— Willa Cather
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If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to…
— Charles Dickens
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned…
— Hermann Hesse
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish…
— Thomas Hardy
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The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal…
— James Allen
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God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He…
— John Piper
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The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful…
— Mark Twain
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The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more…
— C.S. Lewis
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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the…
— Wendell Berry
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The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all…
— Washington Irving
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I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to…
— Anne Frank
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The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems…
— Fred Rogers
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Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in…
— Clark Ashton Smith
Who Wrote These Worldly Quotes
287 authors contributed a total of 379 Worldly Quotes, led by these top contributors: