Worldly Quotes - Page 22

• The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Tree, Comfort

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• Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

  John Muir

  Nature, Men, Care

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.638, e-artnow

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• If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Home, Might

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

  John Piper

  Life Is Too Short, Waste, Painful

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• The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

  Meher Baba

  Life, Purpose, Done

  Meher Baba, A. C. S. Chari (1969). “84 Questions & Answers on Avatar Meher Baba”

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• I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspirational, Memories, Sleep

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• How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Godly, Becoming

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.87, Tyndale House

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• There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.

  J. C. Ryle

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Cost

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• The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.387, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Being Alone, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1127, e-artnow

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• No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Inspiration, Light

  Letter to Edith. "J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography". Book by Humphrey Carpenter, p. 66, 1977.

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• We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the world out of the man. As long as the human being is obsessed by worldliness, he will suffer from the Karmic consequences of false allegiances. When however, worldliness is transmuted into Spiritual Integrity he is free, even though he still dwells physically among worldly things.

  Manly Hall

  Spiritual, Integrity, Men

  Manly Palmer Hall (1949). “Horizon”

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• Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

  Alain de Botton

  Self, Years, Careers

  Twitter post from Apr 09, 2014

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• When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.

  Alistair Begg

  Men, Wealth, Poor

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