Quotes About Worldly

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

When the worldly toys in which we foolishly place our hopes for happiness are taken away from us, our foolishness is also taken away, and this brings us closer to true happiness, which is not in worldly things but in wisdom.

My father reminds me that according to Midrash - the ever-evolving commentary upon the Hebrew scriptures - when you arrive in the world as a baby, your hands are clenched, as though to say, Everything is mine. I will inherit it all. When you depart from the world, your hands are open, as though to say, I have acquired nothing from the world.

Those who regard worldly affairs as a hindrance to buddha dharma think only that there is no buddha dharma in the secular world; they do not understand that there is no secular world in buddha dharma.

Nuestras ridiculeces son causadas en gran medida por un bello sentimiento, una virtud o unas facultades llevadas al extremo. El orgullo que no se refina con el trato del gran mundo se transforma en rigidez que se apega a simples pequeñeces en vez de crecer en un círculo de sentimientos elevados.

People are slaves to the world, and as long as they live favorable and comfortable lives, they are loyal to religious principles. However, at hard times, the times of trials, true religious people are scarce.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.

Oamenii lumii, care se las? condu?i de sentimentele pe care lumea le inspir?, iubesc ?i urm?resc cu mult? însufle?ire onoarea, faima, str?lucirea unui nume mare printre semeni.

We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.

Having more of this world never fulfills. Only more of Christ does.

If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.

Solo cuando logramos acallar al cristiano ateo que llevamos dentro y buscar a Dios y su reino por sobre las cosas huecas y vacías de este mundo, podemos experimentar la verdadera bendición perdurable.

Cuando no estoy concentrado en lo que le importa a Dios, mi corazón se desvía hacia las cosas de este mundo —más y más grande, mejores y más veloces—la

You are in the world, but not to be tied to the world.

If you allow the things of this world to dominate your thinking, you will be spiritually unfruitful.

Christians are often ridiculed by friends or coworkers when they seem to lack knowledge or experience in secular and sinful activities.

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

Buddha's father had been in the world.

Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

Daily I walk a high wire, always in danger of losing my balance. The essence of my life is supernatural, which I must respect if I am to make the best use of my gift. Yet I live in the rational world and am subject to its laws. The temptation is to be guided entirely by impulses of an otherworldly origin-but in this world a long fall will always end in a hard impact.