Worldly Christian Quotes

#1. A worldly Christian is just like a wrecked vessel at sea.

D.L. Moody

#2. I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.

Vance Havner

#3. Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#4. The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.

Leonard Ravenhill

#5. Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christianity community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#6. The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

John Dryden

#7. Just what," answered the other, "would be the productive capacity of society if the present resources of science were utilized, we have no means of ascertaining; but we may be sure it would exceed anything that would sound reasonable to minds inured to the ferocious barbarities of capitalism. After

Upton Sinclair

#8. We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#9. If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.

Christian Scriver

#10. 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

#11. Forgiveness can get you places, I guess. But sometimes you need to light a fire.

Danielle Paige

#12. The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains us; we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves according to worldly standards, we are fine just the way we are.

Tim Crawshaw

#13. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#14. God's Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking.

Elizabeth George

#15. The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration.

Judith Herrin

#16. Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

Blaise Pascal

#17. If [Christian leaders] do not teach Christian principles to all followers of Christ, we are not equipping them with God's truth that will
overcome worldly influence.

Billy Graham

#18. The world by its advertisements, its conversation, and its philosophy is engaged in a gigantic brainwashing task ... The Christian is beset by secular and worldly propaganda.

Billy Graham

#19. If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

Francis Schaeffer

#20. A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

John Gray

#21. In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

Bill Dedman

#22. When the critics come around it's always too late.

Sidney Nolan

#23. I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.

Emily Dickinson

#24. The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

C.S. Lewis

#25. Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#27. If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.

Thomas Chalmers

#28. How does a boot to the groin region sound?" A quick smirk. "I'll even pay you." Tommy feigned shock. "Jeez, no wonder you're making no money. Your customer service is lousy.

Jennifer Lee Thomson

#29. The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian.

Ronald H. Nash

#30. Any Christian whose interest is directed toward himself is worldly.

Billy Graham

#31. When Christians forget about hope and tenderness they become a cold Church, that loses its sense of direction and is held back by ideologies and worldly attitudes, whereas God's simplicity tells you: go forward, I am a Father who caresses you.

Pope Francis

#32. If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles.

Benjamin Franklin

#33. You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost. Mark my words: as soon as the bones mend, you will forget about the fracture.

Haruki Murakami

#34. Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.

Isabella MacDonald Alden

#35. I love you.' For whatever small comfort it was worth, he would have the truth between them now. 'Most desperately. Bloody inconvenient, that.

Alexandra Bracken