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The certainty of the world's end looms, yet those whose hearts reside at the feet of the Lord shall not meet their end as the world does. For the earth, beneath our Creator's majesty, is but His footstool, and He reigns as the sovereign monarch over both heaven and earth. In this divine embrace, one finds an eternal sanctuary beyond the temporal boundaries of worldly existence. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 3 months ago
Digital skills provide global opportunities, these kids are doing so much. They have Zoom calls with NASA. They are so worldly. – Nelly Cheboi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Humanism without the root of love will be a cruel world see worldly hypocrisy. – Merlin Figama Worshipper	added by legerfig 1 year ago
Everything I have, all of my worldly income, is going to go to my foundation. – Don McLean	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Melinda strikes me as someone who is not going to look for something purely superficial, shall we say, but Bill seems like a guy who part of what turns him on is intellect – smart women are very sexy to him. So I think that he's very likely to be with someone who is worldly, has life experience and is successful in her own right. Perhaps a woman that is very, very, very bright. – Melinda Gates	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My dad was always the person who would plant seeds and give me encouragement but also would say things that would fester inside me that wouldn't come to fruition for a while, he was very worldly and deep in his thinking. My mom was the enforcer. My dad may have been in the Special Forces, but I was never afraid of him. My mom's still here, and I'm still deathly afraid of her. She's a very tough, tough old lady, very demanding. She was the hand, she was the one, I love her so much, but she was tough. – Earl Woods	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The funny thing is that I’ve known since I was 7 years old that I was never going to have kids, i always imagined myself as this worldly, traveling, gypsy lady. – Kat Von D	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU! – RAMANA PEMMARAJU	added by anonymous 6 years ago
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.” – Vincent Van Gogh	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
The cosmopolitan life here is so much more elegant and worldly and connected with other parts of the eastern Mediterranean. – Lawrence Stager	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing! – J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)	added by meteorstorm 7 years ago
there has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality: what am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, isn't it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs” – Ramana Pemmaraju	added by anonymous 8 years ago
You can't make this stuff up, the fact that there was the announcement on the same week as our film just excites people. Human beings are just interested in other worldly things right now. – Chris Aronson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Entangled in a hundred worldly snares, Self-seeking men, by ignorance deluded, Strive by unrighteous means to pile up riches. Then, in their self-complacency, they say, ?This acquisition I have made to-day, That will I gain to-morrow, so much pelf Is hoarded up already, so much more Remains that I have yet to treasure up. This enemy I have destroyed, him also, And others in their turn, I will despatch. I am a lord; I will enjoy myself; I?m wealthy, noble, strong, successful, happy; I?m absolutely perfect; no one else In all the world can be compared to me. Now will I offer up a sacrifice, Give gifts with lavish hand, and be triumphant.? Such men, befooled by endless vain conceits, Caught in the meshes of the world?s illusion, Immersed in sensuality, descend Down to the foulest hell of unclean spirits.* – Mahabharata	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind, that blows now this way, now that, and changes name as it changes sides. – Dante	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body. – Chinese	added by anonymous 12 years ago
She is a wife who is notable in her house; she is a wife who beareth children; she is a wife whose husband is as her life; she is a wife who is obedient to her lord. The wife is half the man; a wife is man?s dearest friend; a wife is the source of his religion, his worldly profit, and his love. He who hath a wife maketh offerings in his house. Those who have wives are blest with good fortune. Wives are friends, who, by their kind and gentle speech, soothe you in your retirement. In your distresses they are as mothers, and they are refreshment to those who are travellers in the rugged paths of life. – Mahabharata	added by anonymous 12 years ago
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly. – G.K. Chesterton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. – William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things. – Marcus Valerius Martialis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The certainty of the world's end looms, yet those whose hearts reside at the feet of the Lord shall not meet their end as the world does. For the earth, beneath our Creator's majesty, is but His footstool, and He reigns as the sovereign monarch over both heaven and earth. In this divine embrace, one finds an eternal sanctuary beyond the temporal boundaries of worldly existence.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
3 months ago

Digital skills provide global opportunities, these kids are doing so much. They have Zoom calls with NASA. They are so worldly.

– Nelly Cheboi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Humanism without the root of love will be a cruel world see worldly hypocrisy.

– Merlin Figama Worshipper

added by legerfig
1 year ago

Everything I have, all of my worldly income, is going to go to my foundation.

– Don McLean

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Melinda strikes me as someone who is not going to look for something purely superficial, shall we say, but Bill seems like a guy who part of what turns him on is intellect – smart women are very sexy to him. So I think that he's very likely to be with someone who is worldly, has life experience and is successful in her own right. Perhaps a woman that is very, very, very bright.

– Melinda Gates

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My dad was always the person who would plant seeds and give me encouragement but also would say things that would fester inside me that wouldn't come to fruition for a while, he was very worldly and deep in his thinking. My mom was the enforcer. My dad may have been in the Special Forces, but I was never afraid of him. My mom's still here, and I'm still deathly afraid of her. She's a very tough, tough old lady, very demanding. She was the hand, she was the one, I love her so much, but she was tough.

– Earl Woods

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The funny thing is that I’ve known since I was 7 years old that I was never going to have kids, i always imagined myself as this worldly, traveling, gypsy lady.

– Kat Von D

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!

– RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”

– Vincent Van Gogh

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

The cosmopolitan life here is so much more elegant and worldly and connected with other parts of the eastern Mediterranean.

– Lawrence Stager

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!

– J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)

added by meteorstorm
7 years ago

there has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality: what am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, isn't it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs”

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by anonymous
8 years ago

You can't make this stuff up, the fact that there was the announcement on the same week as our film just excites people. Human beings are just interested in other worldly things right now.

– Chris Aronson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

– Bryant McGill

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Entangled in a hundred worldly snares, Self-seeking men, by ignorance deluded, Strive by unrighteous means to pile up riches. Then, in their self-complacency, they say, ?This acquisition I have made to-day, That will I gain to-morrow, so much pelf Is hoarded up already, so much more Remains that I have yet to treasure up. This enemy I have destroyed, him also, And others in their turn, I will despatch. I am a lord; I will enjoy myself; I?m wealthy, noble, strong, successful, happy; I?m absolutely perfect; no one else In all the world can be compared to me. Now will I offer up a sacrifice, Give gifts with lavish hand, and be triumphant.? Such men, befooled by endless vain conceits, Caught in the meshes of the world?s illusion, Immersed in sensuality, descend Down to the foulest hell of unclean spirits.*

– Mahabharata

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind, that blows now this way, now that, and changes name as it changes sides.

– Dante

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body.

– Chinese

added by anonymous
12 years ago

She is a wife who is notable in her house; she is a wife who beareth children; she is a wife whose husband is as her life; she is a wife who is obedient to her lord. The wife is half the man; a wife is man?s dearest friend; a wife is the source of his religion, his worldly profit, and his love. He who hath a wife maketh offerings in his house. Those who have wives are blest with good fortune. Wives are friends, who, by their kind and gentle speech, soothe you in your retirement. In your distresses they are as mothers, and they are refreshment to those who are travellers in the rugged paths of life.

– Mahabharata

added by anonymous
12 years ago

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

– G.K. Chesterton

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

– William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

– Marcus Valerius Martialis

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

– Francis Quarles

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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