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• Indeed, some secularists are so worried about Christianity, they think Christians are about as dangerous as Muslim terrorists. They get really worried when we don't invest our lives in this-worldly concerns. They look on us as unpredictable free agents. When we reject their relativism and make absolutist spiritual claims, they look at us as nervously as they would a terrorist with a suicide bomb strapped to his back. Of course, Christians are not into coercion in any form. But it is very hard to persuade secularists of that.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Suicide, Spiritual

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all kinds of ways, God has to prod us and reach out to us again and again, so that we can manage to escape from the muddle of our thoughts and activities and discover the way that leads to him. But a path exists for all of us. The Lord provides everyone with tailor-made signals.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Philosophy, Distance

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• Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Giving, Profound

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• The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

  Frederick Buechner

  World, Language, Speak

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• Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Meaningful, Heart, Greatness

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• Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

  James A. Garfield

  Spiritual, Son, Men

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• 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 man's stature as to his happiness.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Principles, Add

  Laurence Sterne (1811). “The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life”, p.240

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• The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Self Esteem, Numbers, Achievement

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• Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

  Robert Burton

  Real, Moon, Mind

  Robert Burton (1824). “The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are -- "traced from Within Its Inmost Centre to Its Outmost Skin."”, p.178

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• As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

  Adam Clarke

  Jesus, Honor, Resurrection

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• 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 breaking the solemn silence of night.

  George Eliot

  Night, Voice, Silence

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3820, Delphi Classics

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• France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Attitude, France, Given

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• A country doesn't need a businessman to run it: it needs a heartful, worldly, compassionate leader.

  George Saunders

  Running, Country, Leader

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• 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 worldly and good listening.

  Etta James

  Country, Listening, Want

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• 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 tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Soul

  William Law (1726). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection”, p.42

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• 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

  Men, People, Soul

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• 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 process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.

  Hannah Arendt

  Past, Order, Needs

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• 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 been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

  Knute Nelson

  Mean, Order, Arrogance

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• Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Human Nature, Orthodox

  Francis Quarles (1857). “Emblems: Divine and Moral”, p.7

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• 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 best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

  Mitt Romney

  Success, Spiritual, Giving

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• I think about how I conceptualize the audience. The trick is that they've got to be smarter and more worldly than me. So as I'm revising, I'm keeping that in mind. I cannot condescend, even a little bit. Every single choice that I make is motivated by that.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

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• I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
  To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Mind, Neglect

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.32

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• Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally exhausted? Or Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, not to mention those of Malcolm X? It is the conditions that produce violence that should upset us ethically and prompt us to act responsibly, rather than to capitulate to a privatized emotional response that substitutes a therapeutic language for a political and worldly one.

  Henry Giroux

  Emotional, Political, Upset

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. We all feel instinctively, that our children's success reflect glory upon ourselves, while their failures make us feel shame. Unfortunately, the successes which cause us to swell with pride are often of an undesirable kind.... Neither happiness nor virtue, but worldly success, is what the average father desires for his children.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Father, Pride

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• Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Philosophy, Men, Philosopher

  The Worldly Philosophers introduction (1953)

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