Christian Worldliness Quotes & Sayings

We need but little learning to live happily. — Michel De Montaigne

Show me the person ready to step from any, let it be the narrowest, sect of Christian Pharisees into a freer and holier air, and I shall look to find in that person the one of that sect who, in the midst of its darkness and selfish worldliness, mistaken for holiness, has been living a life more obedient than the rest. — George MacDonald

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any. — Thomas Paine

Worldliness is not so much what we do, it's what we want to do. It's an issue of the heart. — Britt Merrick

I think I enjoy London the best as it's where I started my career. But Paris is beautiful too. — Alek Wek

A bit like religion, lots of rumor but no real proof that it existed. — Bethany Knox

Beware of worldliness - it can turn your heart away from God. — Jim George

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

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

Love, after all, beats Death. Every time. — Dixie Lyle

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 Mansoul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a Caesar, but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility. — A.W. Tozer

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women. — Robert Jordan

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