Worldly Quotes
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That discipline which corrects the baseness of worldly passion, fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes it with enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity, than all the provision we can make of the goods of fortune.
blair hugh— P. 109. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive.
george c. lorimer— P. 147. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
john buchan— Ch. XI, pp. 313–4
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Francis Quarles— Emblems, Book II. Em. 2.
"It is not money my aunt thinks about. She knows better than to value worldly wealth above its price."
anne brontë— Helen to Arthur (Ch. XX : Persistence)
The science, which teaches arts and handicraftsIs merely science for the gaining of a living;But the science which teaches deliverance from worldly existence,Is not that the true science?"
nagarjuna— Prajñadanda (The Staff of Wisdom) attributed to Nagarjuna
I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.
john newton— Amazing Grace (p. 475)
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
— Solemnization of Marriage, Wedding.
"I trust she may yet be happy; but, if she is, it will be entirely the reward of her own goodness of heart; for had she chosen to consider herself the victim of fate, or of her mother's worldly wisdom, she might have been thoroughly miserable; and if, for duty's sake, she had not made every effort to love her husband, she would, doubtless, have hated him to the end of her days."
anne brontë— Helen Graham (Ch. XXV : First Absence)
"If you loved as I do,' she earnestly replied, 'you would not have so nearly lost me - these scruples of false delicacy and pride would never thus have troubled you - you would have seen that the greatest worldly distinctions and discrepancies of rank, birth, and fortune are as dust in the balance compared with the unity of accordant thoughts and feelings, and truly loving, sympathising hearts and souls."
anne brontë— Helen to Gilbert (Ch. LIII : Conclusion)
Freedom from the world is, in principle, not asceticism, but rather a distance from the world for which all participation in things worldly takes place in the attitude of “as if not.” (1 Cor. 7:29-31)
rudolf bultmann— p. 18 (New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1984))
How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!
thomas chatterton— "A Hymn for Christmas Day", line 13
Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.
Francis Quarles— Book II, no. 2.
Lord Jesus, engrave Thou Thy name with Thine own finger upon my heart, that it may remain closed to wordly joy and worldly pleasure, self-interest, fading honor, and low revenge, and open only to Thee.
christian scriver— P. 94. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Absolutely everything beloved and cherished of the bourgeoisie, the conservative, the cowardly, and the impotent the State, family life, secular art and science was consciously or unconsciously hostile to the religious idea, to the Church, whose innate tendency and permanent aim was the dissolution of all existing worldly orders, and the reconstitution of society after the model of the ideal, the communistic City of God.
thomas mann— Naphta in Ch. 7
I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended. So whoever emigrated for worldly benefits or for a woman to marry, his emigration was for what he emigrated for."
— Narrated by 'Umar bin Al-Khattab: Sahih Al-Bukhari: Volume 1, Book 1, Number 1
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way.
anaïs nin— June 1932 Henry and June
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality.
— Thomas Campbell The Last Man
What grace could all your worldly power bring To One whose crown of thorns has made him King, The Christ who gave His body to the flails, Who humbly bore the lance and piercing nails? Or do you fear the rabble might disgrace The One.
— Secular Power
as quoted in Pushkin, Alexander (2009). Selected Lyric Poetry. Northwestern University Press, p. 121
There never have been wanting men to whom England's improvement by sea and land was one of the dearest thoughts of their lives, and to whom England's good was the foremost of their worldly considerations. And such, emphatically, was Andrew Yarranton, a true patriot in the best sense of the word.
— Patrick Edward Dove, Elements of Political Science. Edinburgh, 1854. Cited in: Samuel Smiles Industrial biography; iron-workers and tool-makers, (1864) p. 85
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
— Book of Common Prayer, Solemnization of Matrimony.
There is no difference between knowledge and devotion, Both of them save the soul from the miseries of worldly life.
— Tulsidas's philosophical approach, quoted in "Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern", p.80
That the spiritual man need not be a recluse, that union with the divine Life may be achieved and maintained in the midst of worldly affairs, that the obstacles to that union lie not outside us but within us such is the central lesson of the Bhagavad-G?t?.
— Annie Besant, "The Bhagavad Gita: The Lord's Song", The Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Preface
A person may have no relatives anywhere, but Mahamaya may make him keep a cat and thus make him worldly. This is how She plays!
— Swami Nikhilananda. Holy Mother. p. 218.
There is such a thing as a worldly spirit, and there is such a thing as an unworldly spirit and according as we partake of the one or the other, the savor of the sacrifice of our lives is ordinary, common-place, poor, and base; or elevating, invigorating, useful, noble, and holy.
— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, p. 621. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
— Sir Walter Scott, p. 612. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
— Claudio, scene i
