Quotes About Worldly

ceasing to live the life of prayer the life of the spirit begins to fail, then those worldly things which are intended to be useful become hurtful and destructive.

J. C. Ryle said, 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.3

He was again showing recklessness in giving voice to these spasmodic outbursts of worldly knowledge. The champagne perhaps caused this intermittent pulling aside of the curtain that concealed some, apparently considerable, volume of practical information about unlikely people: a little storehouse, the existence of which he was normally unwilling to admit, yet preserved safely at the back of his mind in case of need.

Unless your hearts are free from worldly hopes and worldly fears you will never speak boldly as you ought to speak.

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?

Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.

There is no worthier work for the man person who has been graced with the ability to see even a small part of God's Mercy than to serve him and to keep vigil for the people whose sight is still clouded by the shadow of worldly matters.

The Almoravids yielded to the madder fury of the Almohades and the days of worldly accommodation in Al-Andalus passed for good.

It was not an esthetic room. Though Frank Shallard might have come to admire pictures, great music, civilized furniture, he had been trained to regard them as worldly, and to content himself with art which 'presented a message,' to regard 'Les Miserables' as superior because the bishop was a kind man, and 'The Scarlet Letter' as a poor book because the heroine was sinful and the author didn't mind.

Freedom is 'Self-earned' and worldly life is 'earned by egoism'!

In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become free.

Living for the Self [the Soul] is merit karma (you bind merit karma) and living for the worldly life is nothing but demerit karma (you bind demerit karma).

There is strife (trouble) the moment one enters the worldly life and bliss the moment one enters the Self [the Soul].

As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.

Pointing out people's mistakes, having intention to take advantage of people, keeps one bound to a worldly life (sansaar).

The worldly life is not the trouble, the 'wrong belief' is the trouble [oopadhi]. What happens when you believe that which is not yours, as being yours? You will be in trouble.

The worldly life (sansar) is the thing created through delusion [wrong belief]. Therefore when you come to know about this wrong belief, it will go away.

The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.

All who die, are all worldly beings (sansari – believing the worldly life to be real).

When does one qualify (for moksha)? It is when he never has any conflict in the worldly life.

If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished.

Refuting anything in this worldly life is tantamount to refuting God. Even refuting stealing is tantamount to refuting God. This Stealing is a kind of laxative. It cleanses us and leaves.

Interfering in the worldly life is impure action (ashuddha vyavahar).

In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.