Quotes about Worldly

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

If I am seeking everything that can delight my senses, and regale my appetites; spending my time and fortune in pleasures, in diversions, and worldly enjoyments; a stranger to watchings, fastings, prayers, and mortification; how can it be said that I am working out my salvation with fear and trembling?

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

It is good for me to be afflicted that I may die wholly to this world and all that is in it.

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.