Worldly Quotes - Page 17

• If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.

  Christian Scriver

  Stupidity, Needs, Littles

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.147

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• I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, People, May

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• I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Hate, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.171

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• For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

  Bill Vaughan

  Deeds, Rewards, Done

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Reading, Naked, Three

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.

  Umar

  Heart, Comfort, Body

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• Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

  Mason Cooley

  Wise, Aphorism, Considering

  "City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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• Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Spiritual, Men, Progress

  Collected Writings, Volume XI, p. 465, www.katinkahesselink.net. October 1889.

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• At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, School, Night

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• The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

  Walter Raleigh

  Light, Grace, Mind

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• According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Life And Death, Speech

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.564

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• It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Vices, Tongue

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• The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

  Walter Scott

  Greatness, Path, Virtue

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The heart of Mid-Lothian”, p.420

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