#worldly

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#came #ease #hate #human #i

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. ↗

— John Woolman

#commit #fearing #find #fool #god

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#just #more #pleasurable #pleasure #pleasures

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. ↗

— George Eliot

#coarse #effect #faces #funeral #grating

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

— Samuel Butler

#being #great #mistake #point #point of view

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. ↗

— William Law

#cares #certainly #christian #christian life #death

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#wisely #worldly

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#considering #far #flesh #forbidden #fruits

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#breath #changes #direction #fame #his way

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#away #blessed #carries #country #earth