Worldly Quotes

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.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

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.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

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

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

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.

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

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

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

I think I'm attracted to the mystics, to seeing needs in the world. I'm attracted to caring for people who are disenfranchised. I'm attracted to getting rid of worldly possessions.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

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.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions.

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

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.

Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.