Quotes about Worldly
The love of heaven must drive out the inordinate love of what is earthly.
- Geerhardus Vos
We need to make sure we are not analyzing the events in our lives from a secular, human, worldly point of view rather than from a divine, spiritual, godly point of view.
- Tony Evans
A carnal Christian makes his or her decisions based entirely on what can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or heard.
- Tony Evans
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
- Teresa of Avila
Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.
- Thomas a Kempis
Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.
- Soren Kierkegaard
How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.
- Teresa of Avila
Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?
- Leonard Ravenhill
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
- JC Ryle
Failure to honour God in the material realm cannot be compensated for by religiosity in the spiritual realm.
- Christopher Wright
Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.
- Thomas a Kempis
They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.
- Herman Melville