Top 100 Worldly Quotes
#1. As you listen to the murmur of the rain, remember that it is the touch of God. And that just as it unites heaven and earth and nourishes all living things, it can also reunite your worldly spirit with your heart, nourishing the love that you thought you'd lost.
Wayne Lincourt
#2. Living for the Self [the Soul] is merit karma (you bind merit karma) and living for the worldly life is nothing but demerit karma (you bind demerit karma).
Dada Bhagwan
#3. His treatment of mechanical problems wasn't divorced from the worldly situations in which they arise, and as a result [John Muir's service manual on Volkswagens] is extraordinarily clear and useful. It has a human quality, as well.
Matthew B. Crawford
#4. Why the obsession with worldly possessions ? When it's your time to go, they have to stay behind, so pack light.
Alex Morritt
#5. I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#6. Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!
Dada Bhagwan
#7. The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.
John Calvin
#8. ...happiness (is) an inner state, wholly spiritual, independent... of worldly possession.
A.J. Cronin
#9. Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav).
Dada Bhagwan
#10. The by-product that is created while following the religion of the Self [Soul] is the worldly life. It is gained free of cost.
Dada Bhagwan
#11. Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the sky - limitless, infinite. From the bottom of the ocean soar into the vast sky
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#12. I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable ... eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.
Pope Francis
#13. For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#14. When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.
Pope Francis
#15. The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of Helvetius and also Locke has recieved the most acclaim amongst his class. Thus Kant even now will find more followers than Fichte.
Novalis
#16. O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God. Usually these worldly things has caused mortals to forget the the Name of the Lord. Not even one of them will go along with you in the end.
Guru Angad
#17. The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder ... What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#18. If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity.
Bryant McGill
#19. Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.
Alan Cohen
#20. One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the 'Knowledge' [of the Soul, one's True Self] is to be enjoyed.
Dada Bhagwan
#21. 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
#22. Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.
Andy Murray
#23. When there is not a trace of worldly love that is called 'absolute ultimate love' [paramarth prem]!
Dada Bhagwan
#24. As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].
Dada Bhagwan
#25. Henry's worldly goal at the moment was drinking enough beer to be happy and forgetful.
Anna Godbersen
#26. But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.
Thomas Merton
#27. The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality.
Dada Bhagwan
#28. You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?
Nirmala Srivastava
#29. Contestants, whether it be for an army or a posse, we must be strong. We must face our fears, if only to save me and my worldly possessions. So reapply your lipstick, we're going to the Fearnasium, Mrs. Wellington announced stoically before exiting the dining room.
Gitty Daneshvari
#30. We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is don't do it.
Billy Graham
#31. Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.
Eliphas Levi
#32. In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Robert South
#33. The life of man is like the life of a blade of grass. Death comes, the grass withers, and behold life ends, and the flower falls of all greatness and all worldly goods.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#34. As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
Philip Sidney
#35. Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.
Jeffrey Toobin
#36. He stopped and looked at her. "Your laughter is the same," he said. "I used to think you all sophisticated and worldly, until you laughed. You still laugh like a little girl getting tickled, all hiccupy and breathless.
Sherry Thomas
#37. The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and harmful societal developments as they preach and teach and disciple.
Owen Strachan
#38. We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#39. Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one; that is to say it is an internal process, and not external.
Bryant McGill
#40. If one's mind becomes conflict-free, that is 'moksha'; conflict filled mind, that is worldly life.
Dada Bhagwan
#41. Many Christians are "devoured" by worldly interests that distract them from spiritual service to God.
Victor H Ernest
#42. All which is regarded as 'my', belongs to the non-Self. 'I' is the Self and 'my' is of the non-Self; it is pudgal, the body-complex. There is nothing wrong with saying 'this is mine' in the worldly interactions, but the 'I', 'who am I?', must be decided from within.
Dada Bhagwan
#43. It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.
Harper Lee
#44. The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#45. If you want to travel on the path of moksha (ultimate liberation), 'You' (the Self) do not have to 'do' anything. And if you want to wander in the worldly life, 'You' have to 'do' everything.
Dada Bhagwan
#46. God says that, 'Either you tell me that you want only God, or you tell me that you want this worldly life; then I will give it to you.' Do these people really want God? They actually want a house, they want wife and children.
Dada Bhagwan
#47. Understand the suffering of worldly existence.
Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness.
Practice the path of meditation and compassion.
Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.
Gautama Buddha
#48. Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal ... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#49. The worldly life remains [and is not ending and one is not going to moksha] due to the pollution of the mind [bad mind/bad thoughts] and not due to the pollution of the body.
Dada Bhagwan
#50. Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.
Rajneesh
#51. One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a 'collector', what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won't put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away).
Dada Bhagwan
#52. Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#53. The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.
Ben Fountain
#54. Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours ...
Martin Hopkins
#55. So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
#56. Thee mustn't speak evil of thy rulers, Simeon," said his father, gravely. "The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#57. The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
Martial
#58. Caring for others is the basis of worldly success.
Sakyong Mipham
#59. Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain.
Tanith Lee
#60. For the one who 'enjoys' (worldly) happiness, there will come a time for him to endure sorrow.
Dada Bhagwan
#61. In marriage, at home and everywhere else, one is to remain superfluous. That is where people go in deep into; that is called the worldly life (sansaar).
Dada Bhagwan
#62. Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#63. 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
#64. We cannot keep our eyes focused on Jesus while our greed lusts for worldly security. We may go through the motions, but eventually the misplaced priority of worldliness will corrode the soul's joy.
Tony Reinke
#65. Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#66. A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.
Lord Chesterfield
#67. To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.
Sathya Sai Baba
#68. I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.
Cyndi Lauper
#69. If given a choice between stoic justice and compassion, I choose compassion. And if given a choice between worldly leadership and heaven at my feet - I choose heaven.
Yasmin Mogahed
#70. We cannot speak loudly or angrily at such times; we are not apt to be eager about mere worldly things, for our very awe at our quickened sense of the nearness of the invisible world, makes us calm and serene about the petty trifles of today.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#71. A church that loses its distinctiveness is a church that has nothing distinctive with which to engage the culture. A worldly church is of no good to the world.
Russell D. Moore
#72. We are not called to give lifestyle tips or the self-help plumbing that today's worldly men and women crave. The Bible says the gospel is the "power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." (Romans 1:16b), so we must proclaim it.
Richard D. Phillips
#73. You and I, in our quest for truth, must set ourselves on a higher level. If the worldly reasoner
is like a butcher, we wish not to be found like them - minus fingers or thumbs. Spiritual reasoning
can be a very sharp blade; it behooves us, then, to 'rightly divide'.
D.L. Herring
#74. when I die I may leave behind my worldly goods, but I'll take with me everything I have become." Another
Mirella Sichirollo Patzer
#75. Those that look with contempt upon worldly honours shall be recompensed with the honour that cometh from God, which is the true honour.
Matthew Henry
#76. In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.
Willis Regier
#77. Just yesterday I stood at the window and watched him run across the field like a young deer. He is thin and agile. I think he will be forever young. He cannot be enticed by money or worldly goods; he desires nothing.
Nancy B. Brewer
#78. Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.
Sathya Sai Baba
#79. This is Akram Vignan [Akram Science - the stepless spiritual science of direct realization of the Self]. Once you pull out from the racecourse [competitive worldly life], your 'personality' will shine then. Those in the racecourse will never have personality; not a single person.
Dada Bhagwan
#80. Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.
Barbara Pym
#81. We love neither God nor our neighbor as we should. Our love in spiritual things is "too defective, in worldly things too excessive, there is a jar in both." We love the world too much; God too little; our neighbor not at all, or for our own ends.
Robert Burton
#82. Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?
Neem Karoli Baba
#83. What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.
Michael Leunig
#84. People have unlatched the energies of the worldly self (jiv shakti), but they have not unlatched the energies of Real Self (shiv shakti).
Dada Bhagwan
#85. Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.
Edith Stein
#86. I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.
Tony Hawk
#88. Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail ...
Thomas Hardy
#89. Worldly possessions didn't matter much to him, but his freedom did. He could come and go as he pleased, with nothing more than the backpack underneath his seat. It was a simple existence for a simple man.
Rose Wynters
#90. The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.
Dada Bhagwan
#91. The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are trained to give unquestioning, uncritical obedience to worldly powers and not to Christ.
Megan McKenna
#92. It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.
Charles Grandison Finney
#93. Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.
Bryant McGill
#94. As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
Adam Clarke
#95. I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.
Kiana Tom
#96. 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
#97. The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
Laurence Sterne
#98. Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
Jonathan Edwards
#99. There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is 'Gnan', (true) Knowledge.
Dada Bhagwan
#100. Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
Maya Angelou
