Worldly Quotes

379 Worldly quotes by 287 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and… — J C Ryle
There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult… — Lisa Kleypas
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in… — Wendell Berry
Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things… — Swami Satchidananda
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other… — Thomas Merton
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of… — George Eliot
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 I remember exactly… — Megan McCafferty
She gestured toward his very fine chest with her pencil. “On the off chance I find out after we’re married that your declaration of abiding… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since… — Dan Brown
...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. — T.H. White
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less… — Hermann Hesse
I dreamt of worldly success once. — Miyamoto Musashi
somehow one must love the world without being worldly. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes… — Eckhart Tolle

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