Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group…then to hell with them.

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear …but because of your love.

In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love (‘be encouraged’) but not the discipline of his love (‘and sin no more’). But with the whole scope of his...

I’ve been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It’s death. It’s meaningless.

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil’s advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

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...

I don’t have what it takes to inspire someone to become a “worldly” musician or rapper! I can’t use the power God gave me yesterday to work against the Kingdom God set up many years...

Part of the treasure in heaven that Jesus talks about is the feeling of purpose and satisfaction a person has when they know they are performing the will of God. Those who put themselves and...

Involvement with the eight worldly dharmas keeps beings imprisoned in the realms of samsara and renders them susceptible to the hosts of emotions. The eight worldly dharmas are: praise and blame, gain and loss, fame...

People don’t seem to realizeit that it is not like we’re onthe Titanic and we have toavoid the iceberg. We’vealready hit the iceberg. Thewater is rushing in down below. But some people justdon’t want to...

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game,...

You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was....

1.17 THE WORLDLY WAYSThe world, the din, the time, the kin,In our days are a sin,Love’s condemned and not true,A farce for sex, a laugh at You.[179] – 1Simplicity is a crime,Frauds and liars are...

Tiny GigglesSilly giggles of laughterI store upon a shelfI give some to otherI save some for myselfI am rich beyond all measureThough not with worldly wealthI store up these treasuresFor my heart and soulful health.

And she’s like, you know, the ‘Grace’ in U2’s song, the one that ‘carries the world on her hips’.” – Diana Rigsby, M.D. Ph.D.

Meanwhile she’s coldly interrogating me with her eyes. She’s definitely in charge of this house and this moment. This must be Chloe.She escorts me to a table full of people and presents me. She introduces...