Worldly Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Spiritual, Limits

  Twitter post from May 01, 2016

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• Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Jesus, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is in need of wealth or anything else. Real offering is the act of surrendering the mind and the intellect. How can it be done? We cannot offer our minds as they are, but only the things to which our minds are attached. Today our minds are greatly attached to money and other worldly things. By placing such thoughts at the feet of the Lord, we are offering Him our heart. This is the principle behind giving charities.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

  Horace Mann

  Education, School, Character

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.113

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• What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go of attachments to this worldly life and this earthly body and identifies with the permanence or God-consciousness that Jesus represented, will never die.

  Rama Swami

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

  Swami Rama (2002). “Sacred Journey: Living Purposefully and Dying Gracefully”, p.34, Lotus Press

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• Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Real, Adversity, True Evil

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• When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love. For by continual participation in the divine radiance his intellect becomes totally filled with light; and when it has reintegrated its passible aspect, it redirects this aspect towards God, filling it with an incomprehensible and intense longing for Him and with unceasing love, thus drawing it entirely away from worldly things to the divine.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Men, Drawing

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• ...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for the people of God' (Heb. 4:9). God can 'bear these sabbaths' (cf. Is. 1:13) because they are true. And the one 'in which the world is crucified' (Gal. 6:14) reaches these sabbaths of rest because he has clearly turned away from worldly things and returned to his own spiritual resting place. The one who arrives there will no longer be moved from his place, for there he finds quiet and tranquility.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Cfs

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• It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Should Have, Ideas, Achievement

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• A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business

  Charlie Munger

  Lessons, Management, Investment

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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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• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Airplane, Light, Climbing

  Rudolf Arnheim (2009). “The Dynamics of Architectural Form”, p.33, Univ of California Press

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• 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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• I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.

  Gerhard Richter

  Law, Evil, Giving

  Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.timeout.com. October 10, 2011.

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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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• 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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• It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.

  Harper Lee

  Wise, People, Southern

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• There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

  Will Self

  Powerful, Creative, Intellectual

  "Why I said yes to Professor Self" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• We all have personalities, but in football a lot of times you don't talk about that because you want to focus more on the grit and grind of the season, instead of people's personal styles or worldly habits.

  Dhani Jones

  Football, People, Focus

  "Dhani Jones: "I'm Gonna Be The First Black James Bond"". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 10, 2009.

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• As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself.

  Francis Quarles

  Art, Pride, Loss

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.42

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• We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision.  Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation.  And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Names, Leader

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• Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like yoga or Tai Chi or Qigong built into the day - and serve as a calming retreat from the daily demands of life. Muslims thus learn to balance deeni wa dunyavi (the spiritual and the worldly). They can't abandon one for the other; that's the essence of their faith.

  Haroon Siddiqui

  Spiritual, Prayer, Yoga

  Haroon Siddiqui (2010). “Groundwork Being Muslim”, p.59, A&C Black

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