Worldly Quotes - Page 14

• There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Christian, Character, Adversity

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• Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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• I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.

  Stephen Karam

  Reading, Play, Knowing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

  Ben Fountain

  Letting Go, Writing, Funny Things

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

  Guido Palau

  People, Challenges, Surprise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light.

  Zicheng Hong

  Life, Moon, Reflection

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• The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.

  Kathy Baker

  Giving, Quaker, Strict

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• Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord

  Simon Van Booy

  First Love, Men, Fire

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.132, Oneworld Publications

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• For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

  Plato

  Harmony, Difficult, Rhythm

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• Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Fear, Joy, Swim

  Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher (1783). “The purple island, or The isle of man. [In verse] To which is added, Christ's victory and triumph, a poem by G. Fletcher”, p.116

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• By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority . . .

  Jacob Bronowski

  Trying, Prejudice, Cost

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.

  James Hillman

  Karma, Spiritual, Discipline

  Gopi Krishna, James Hillman (1967). “Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man”

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• Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Adversity, Prosperity, Praise

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• Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

  Herman Melville

  Men, World, May

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.283, Herman Melville

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• The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the every-day world's people themselves, far transcend those inferior Transcendentalists by their own incomprehensible worldly maxims.

  Herman Melville

  People, World, Transcendentalism

  Herman Melville (2017). “Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Love Is, Living Right

  Source: www.awarenessmag.com

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• I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.

  Emily Dickinson

  Christian, Morning, Prayer

  Emily Dickinson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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• I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

  Charles Dickens

  Determination, Men, Order

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.356

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• Clear the mind of all worldly things.  If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Mind, Realizing, Clear

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• I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.

  Mooji

  Teaching, Ideas, Giving

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• Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to have little desire for material goods, but worldly people use frugality as a cover for stinginess. Thus do watchwords of enlightened life turn into tools for the private business of small people. What a pity!

  Zicheng Hong

  Mean, People, Justice

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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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• 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 tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Children, Selfish

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• The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Views, Insane

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Aug 19, 2013

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• Understand the suffering of worldly existence.
  Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness.
  Practice the path of meditation and compassion.
  Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Compassion, Practice

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