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• God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.

  Kenneth Myers

  Art, Temptation, Safe

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• While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

  Ibn Arabi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Self

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• I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Men, Friendly, Faces

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• Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Success, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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• The true Christian regards all Christ's friends as his friends, members of the same body, children of the same family, soldiers in the same army, travelers to the same home. When he meets them, he feels as if he had long known them. He is more at home with them in a few minutes, than he is with many worldly people after an acquaintance of several years. And what is the secret of all this? It is simply affection to the same Savior and love to the same Lord.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Children, Home

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set”, p.2435, Moody Publishers

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• A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Pride, Thinking, Order

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• I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

  Howard Jacobson

  Spiritual, Spiritual Success, Routes

  "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure" by Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Will Self, Lionel Shriver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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• The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Depth, Doe

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• No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.

  Kelly Link

  Kings, War, Soldier

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I had come from nowhere and had no history, so I fully accepted my circumstances-even the initial murk and mess of the Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View-with equanimity.

  Eben Alexander

  Eye, Self, Views

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, School, Careers

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• As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

  Clifford Geertz

  Strength, Religious, Pain

  Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.

  Richardson Wright

  Life, Nature, Successful

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• Everything in Louisiana is about layers. There are layers of race, layers of class, layers of survival, layers of death, and layers of rebirth. To live with these layers is to be a true Louisianian. This state has a depth that is simultaneously beyond words and yet as natural as breathing. How can a place be both other-worldly and completely pedestrian is beyond me; however, Louisiana manages to do it. Louisiana is spooky that way.

  Don Lemon

  Race, Breathing, Class

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• To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian position. The irony of the matter, though, is that whenever the Christian community gains worldly power, it nearly always loses its capacity to be the critic of the power and influence it so readily brokers.

  Peter J. Gomes

  Christian, Community, Triumph

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• Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.

  Thomas Boston

  World, May, Enjoyment

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 207, 1895.

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• But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

  Bruno Bauer

  Art, Children, Important

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• Always remember, wherever you are, whether near or far, you had a mother who really, really loved you. The original mother. Once you've found your true inner guru you can never again be divided. Perfect union with the divine, through the grace of your real teacher, transcends time, space, death and all worldly limitations. Your real teacher is the original mother - regardless in which manifest or non-manifest form, or gender, she appears. The one who nurtures you and the one who also, out of wisdom and compassion, corrects you if you are misguided.

  Zeena Schreck

  Mother, Teacher, Real

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• I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. Therefore, if I live in the world, I will become worldly; on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I will become holy.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Hands, World, Holiness

  Smith Wigglesworth (2000). “Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power”, p.88, Whitaker House

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• The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.

  Laozi

  Ambition, Doors, Ties

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Soul, Mind, Desire

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• Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Fall, Fate

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• Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Giving Up, Attachment

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes.

  Meera

  Death, Comfort, Illusion

  Mirabai, “That Dark Dweller In Braj”

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• Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly.

  Ice Cube

  People, Black, Important

  Source: music.avclub.com

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