Worldly Quotes - Page 6

• O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

  Samuel Wilberforce

  Sunday, Blessing, Sea

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• A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

  Marianne Williamson

  Motivational, Acting, Levels

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love ('be encouraged') but not the discipline of his love ('and sin no more'). But with the whole scope of his love, or maturity in Christ, we begin relying on him for guidance where we would prefer him to walk beside us rather than behind us.

  Criss Jami

  Jesus, Kindness, Maturity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.23, Criss Jami

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• One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God

  Abraham Kuyper

  Passion, Home, School

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• Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

  Criss Jami

  Feelings, Devil, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.66, Criss Jami

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• I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth; who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Heart, Men, Mind

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God. Usually these worldly things has caused mortals to forget the the Name of the Lord. Not even one of them will go along with you in the end.

  Guru Angad

  Fire, Names, Achievement

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• Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

  Jonathan Raban

  Book, People, Style

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to educate for eternity, Eugene England writes: Teaching or learning - with the Spirit of God simply means (though it is not simple) that we are doing so with an eye single to eternal, not worldly, values, with an eye single to lasting development of the mind and spirit and to useful service to others, especially to aid in their lasting development of mind and spirit.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Teaching, Writing, Learning

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• I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Badass, Agendas, Worldly Wisdom

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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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• 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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• Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love!

  Josemaria Escriva

  Heart, Long, Saint

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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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• It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Evil, Would Be

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• For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Art, Stars

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2000). “Vanity Fair: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.928, Modern Library

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• I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Giving Up, Religion

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• Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.

  Isabella Macdonald Alden

  Christian, Average, Way

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• ...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the divine and heavenly fire of the Holy Spirit? Or does it lean toward Jewish superstition? Is its surface piety something which has come down from bloated worldly philosophy? We must examine this most carefully, doing as the apostle bids us: 'Do not believe in every spirit, but make sure to find out if spirits are from God'.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Philosophy, Believe

  "Conferences".

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• The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brother, Men, Sheep

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the sky - limitless, infinite. From the bottom of the ocean soar into the vast sky

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Ocean, Love Is, Sky

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.83, Arktos

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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, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Sex, Ignorance, Race

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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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• 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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