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

  Faith, Inspiration, Evil

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Religion

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• 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.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Water, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 622), 1895.

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• Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Looks, Normal, Strange

  Twitter post from Sep 6, 2013

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• God will not accept a divided heart. He must be absolute monarch. There is not room in your heart for two thrones. You cannot mix the worship of the true God with the worship of any other god more than you can mix oil and water. It cannot be done. There is not room for any other throne in the heart if Christ is there. If worldliness should come in, godliness would go out.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Heart, Oil And Water, Two

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• In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Kings

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• The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Jesus, Lakes

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.373, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Self, Ease

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• I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. Therefore, if I live in the world, I will become worldly; on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I will become holy.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Hands, World, Holiness

  Smith Wigglesworth (2000). “Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power”, p.88, Whitaker House

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• The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

  Henry Jacobsen

  Essence, Exclusion, Materialism

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• Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

  Matthew Henry

  Enemy, Half, Professors

  "An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments" by Matthew Henry, Vol. 2, (p. 482), 1804.

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• When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Devil, World, Made

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Happiness, Mistake

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.35, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• 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.

  Robert Herrick

  Buying, Spirit, God Love

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

  Samuel Rutherford

  Heart, World, Made

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.225

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• The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.

  Jerry Bridges

  Lying, Believe, Biblical

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

  John Piper

  Self, World, Sin

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• Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event there is a message to us; and all our circumstances talk with us; but it is in Divine language, that worldliness misunderstands, that selfishness is frightened at, and that only the children of God hear rightly and happily.

  William Mountford

  God, Children, Night

  William Mountford (1874). “Euthanasy: Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.503

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• Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Relationship, Sympathy, Money

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.54, Publishdrive

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• The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You may think to gain favor and influence with the unsaved by joining with them in the lodge, or attending with them the movies, or by smoking or drinking or playing bridge with them, but you cannot! Worldliness means powerlessness! And that means that every Christian who sells out is guilty of the murder of the poor lost souls that go to Hell because he lost his influence.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Drinking

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

  Elizabeth I

  World, Bogs, Over It

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• How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Godly, Becoming

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.87, Tyndale House

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• A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .

  Albert Pike

  Lying, Littles, Majesty

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• I love Iain Murray's definition of worldliness: towards the end of Evangelicalism Divided, he says that worldliness consists of loving idols and being at war with God. I think that's true in the lives of too many professing Christians today.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, War, Thinking

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindedness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.

  William Mountford

  Faith, Integrity, Inspiration

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 220), 1895.

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