Worldliness Quotes

• You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Evil
  • Inspiration
  • Spell

• Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • People
  • World
  • Earth

• The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

  

  John Piper
  • Dangerous
  • Self-Reliance
  • Stupor

• If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.

  

  Arno C. Gaebelein
  • Blood
  • Gospel
  • Worldliness

• On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Powerful
  • Ignorance
  • Fundamentals