Quotes About Worldly

There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

There are just some kind of men who- who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

When your heart is tainted by the love of this world and the pursuit of all its goodies, whether you are sexually immoral or not, you are living an impure life.

Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.

Christians are not in bondage to do things as the world does, and moreover, the traditions and rudiments of men are not necessary to honor God.

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.

The difficulty in weaning the mind from worldly thoughts, from external objects, and fixing it on God is the same as in making the Ganga flow towards Gangotri instead of its natural flow towards Ganga-Sagar. It is like rowing against the current of the Yamuna.

One half of the trouble in the assemblies is the people's murmuring over the conditions they are in. The Bible teaches us not to murmur. If you reach that standard, you will never murmur anymore. You will be above murmuring. You will be in the place where God is absolutely the exchanger of thought, the exchanger of actions, and the exchanger of your inward purity. He will be purifying you all the time and lifting you higher, and you will know you are not of this world (John 15:19).

All worldly activities are being done for the sake of entertainment of the consciousness of every living being.

Worldy honor hath also its grace, and the power of overcoming, and of mastery; whence springs also the thirst of revenge. But yet, to obtain all these, we may not depart from Thee, O Lord, nor decline from Thy law.

And it is good for a man not to touch a woman. And, he that is unmarried thinketh of the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he that is married careth for the things of this world, how he may please his wife.

l'amour, pour toi, ne peut être que quelque chose de léger, revêtant la forme d'un jeu et dénué d'importance ; tu redoutes de t'immiscer dans une destinée. Tu veux t'abandonner sans mesure à toutes les joies du monde, mais tu ne veux pas de sacrifice.

For Bosch such cynical thoughts came easily. He had been around the block a few times.

Nothing lasts. Not even literary or artistic fame protects worldly things around us.

Weltliche Dinge muß man erkennen, damit man sie lieben kann. Göttliche Dinge muß man lieben, damit man sie erkennen kann.

There is an ocean of difference between a real all-renouncing devotee of God and a householder devotee. A real sanny?si, a real devotee who has renounced the world, is like a bee. The bee will not light on anything but a flower. It will not drink anything but honey. But a devotee leading the worldly life is like a fly. The fly sits on a festering sore as well as on a

Give your body and mind to worldly enjoyments, and the world will destroy them both. Devote them to God and his service, and you will enjoy bodily health, peace of mind, and spiritual joy.

There are three levels of healing: physical, mental, and spiritual. Man is a citizen of these three levels. One who has spiritual power can heal others on all levels, but if he tries to make healing his profession, his mind and will-force will again start running toward worldly grooves. A dissipated and worldly mind is not fit enough to heal anyone.

The only trouble was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn't take up the whole of your life. No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.

not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many of noble birth; but . . . God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. 1 COR. 1:26-27

Christians cannot be so joined to this world that they forget who they serve.

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

Thy babbling tongue tells golden tales Of endless treasure; Thy bounty offers easy sales Of lasting pleasure; Thou ask'st the conscience what she ails, And swear'st to ease her: There's none can want where thou supply'st: There's none can give when thou deny'st. Alas! fond world, thou boast'st; false world thou ly'st.

in the real world, religious life does not exist in a purely spiritual form. It is saturated with things.