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Worldliness: Quotations from Burning Words

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.— RUTHERFORD

Lift thyself up, look around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.— JEAN PAUL RICHTER

O my God! close my eyes, that I may see Thee; separate me from the world, that I may enjoy Thy company.— CHRISTIAN SCRIVER

Worldliness consists in these three: attachment to the outward attachment to the transitory - attachment to the unreal: in opposition to love for the inward, the eternal, the true: and the one of these affections is necessarily expelled by the other. Unworldliness is this - to hold things from God in the perpetual conviction that they will not last; to have the world, and not let the world have us; to be the world's masters, and not the world's slaves.— F. W. ROBERTSON

There is such a thing as a worldly spirit, and there is such a thing as an unworldly spirit - and according as we partake of the one or the other, the savor of the sacrifice of our lives is ordinary, common-place, poor, and base; or elevating, invigorating, useful, noble, and holy.— DEAN STANLEY

Conformity to the world has in all ages proved the ruin of the church. It is utterly impossible to live in nearness to God, and in friendship with the world.— ROWLAND HILL

Show me the men who imbibe the spirit of the world, who choose the company of the world, who imitate the example of the world, conform to the maxims of the world, are swallowed up in the gayety, fashions, and amusements of the world; behold, these are the ungodly, who are brought into desolation as in a moment.— GARDINER SPRING

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.— JOSEPH ALLEINE

Not by empty protestations against the pleasures of the world, and cynical denunciations of its enjoyments, but by our superiority to its perishing greatness, to its fading beauties, and its impotent antagonisms, are we to express our redemption from its power.— GEO. C. LORIMER

We wonder why a certain church-member is so lax in his devotions and loose in his practices. The reason is that, while his trunk and his branches are over on the church side of the wall, his roots run under the wall and dwell in the bad soil on the other side.— T. L. CUYLER

Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.— D. L. MOODY

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.— MADAME SWETCHINE

A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.— C. H. SPURGEON

Christianity does not condemn traffic, commerce, material activities of any kind. Its highest development is possible with the busiest life. To be a first-rate business man does not involve being a fourth-rate Christian. Buying, possessing, accumulating - this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount - doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion - doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.— HERRICK JOHNSON

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.— QUEEN ELIZABETH