Quotes about Worldly

There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

The world says, "Push to the front of the line!" Jesus says, "Go to the back of the line." The world says, "Brand yourself and blast your accomplishments all over social media!" Jesus says, "If you want to be great you have to first learn to serve.

He fears all worldly setback for there is nothing eternal in him.

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

It's ironic that most evangelical churches are filled with people who live very much like the world but look different from it. It should be exactly the opposite. We should look similar to those in our community but act differently.

Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

[The devil] showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Strangely, as much as I heard the word secular as a label on things that should be avoided by good Christians, I don't ever remember hearing the word sacred as its opposite. Instead, I heard the words clean and safe to describe what was not deemed worldly. Clean and safe. How puny those words are. What a pitiful reduction of the grandeur of the created world and its inhabitants. What a sad commentary on the church's understanding of the God of the universe.

They do not realize that the most dangerous source of sin is the love of the world with its lusts and pleasures.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

So also we, if we are to give ourselves wholly to Christ, must break away from all the entanglements of this world.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.