Worldliness Quotes

“If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”

“The world is a judged thing; it is a condemned world.”

“God hath in his love to his chosen, defeated the love of his chosen to the world.”

“My grandfather was a prophet. My father was a saint. I am a man of the world.”

“The challenge is to be 'in' the world but not completely 'of' the world.”

“I am in the world and of the world, a man of many occupations, very busy with the things that are of the world.”

“The world, which was not the Church, was the enemy.”

“A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in it. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live in him.”

“Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off.”

“The artist must be a man of the world, and yet he must not be of the world.”