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.
The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder. . . What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.
I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.
The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.
I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.
nothing is so pleasant. . . as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
I dreamt of worldly success once.
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.
Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.
The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.
A country doesn't need a businessman to run it: it needs a heartful, worldly, compassionate leader.
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!