109 Quotes About Worldliness

  • Author Sonal Takalkar
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    गंगेकाठी "अर्घ्य "देताना कितीतरी मासे माझ्या पायांशी घुटमळायचे. अभेद्य कवचाला चिमुरड्या मुखाने ओरबाडायची चेष्टा करत. पण कधी त्या मातेने माझा तिरस्कार करून जगाच्या प्रवाहात कधीच सोडलं नाही.

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  • Author Jerry Bridges
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    The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words "going along". We simply go along with the values and practices of society.

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  • Author E.M. Forster
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    The female mind, though cruelly practical in daily life, cannot bear to hear ideals belittled in conversation, and Miss Schlegel was asked however she could say such dreadful things, and what it would profit Mr. Bast if he gained the whole world and lost his own soul. She answered, “Nothing, but he would not gain his soul until he had gained a little of the world.

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  • Author William Makepeace Thackeray
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    But my kind reader will please to remember that this history has “Vanity Fair” for a title, and that Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

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