Worldly Quotes

379 Worldly quotes by 287 unique authors

Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was… — James E. Talmage
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to… — Robert South
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion… — Karl Marx
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life… — Hannah Arendt
A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior. — Thomas a Kempis
Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there… — Laozi
How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves… — Jerry Bridges
The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person. — Robert Thurman
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on… — Muhammad
Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention… — Gregory of Nazianzus
People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who… — Gautama Buddha
Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you… — Gautama Buddha
The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties. — Gautama Buddha
Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart — Uthman ibn Affan
Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up… — Uthman ibn Affan
Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world… — Andrew Wommack
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. — Gautama Buddha

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