Quotes of: Worldly Keyword

To pretend to satisfy one's desires with worldly goods is like using straw to put out a fire.

Chinese

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ul...

Mitt Romney

Are you confident because of your worldly possessions or because of who you positively are? The problem with being confident because of the worldly thing that you have, is that you would be very likely to lose it if you were to be in the midst of peo...

Edmond Mbiaka

Involvement with the eight worldly dharmas keeps beings imprisoned in the realms of samsara and renders them susceptible to the hosts of emotions. The eight worldly dharmas are: praise and blame, gain and loss, fame and disgrace, happiness and suffer...

Ways of Enlightenment

Many are one – this is the solution of maya (illusion). You lead a family life, be modest, otherwise you will have the sense of division. Don’t confuse the worldly life with this spiritual life. Every body’s worldly life is different but the sp...

Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

I'm a fairly worldly guy.

Jamie Dornan

You will go far in the Church." "I have no desire to go far. My only ambition is to be a good priest." "You will be that, of course. Nevertheless, you will go higher. And do you know why?” “Why?” “Because,” said Orselli, “you are not afra...

The Cardinal

Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art: It redeems the bad and perfects the good. Because nature commonly forsakes us at her best, take refu...

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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.

Pope Francis

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less consid...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

I dreamt of worldly success once.

Miyamoto Musashi

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

Stephen Baldwin

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Pope Francis

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secu...

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Samuel Butler

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Ramakrishna

Beware of worldliness—it can turn your heart away from God.

Jim George

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

Marianne Faithfull

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

David Brainerd