Vandervelde had seen in the uncle something of that same unworldliness that the nephew displayed, and it had established the human equation between Peter and the shrewd old man.
He had not the warmth of heart that at times obscured Jason Vandervelde's judgment, nor the touch of unworldliness that marked the behavior of the Champneys men.
Her sin has been that of leading men astray from the worship of the true God, and of substituting for the purity and unworldliness of Christian living the irreligious and worldly spirit of the "earth.
Would that from each there sounded out one clear accordant witness to Christ, in the purity and unworldliness of their Christlike lives!
Their views of life differed materially from her own; their complete unworldliness called a half-contemptuous smile to her lips, and yet there was awakened within her a shadowy feeling of regret.
Not the unworldliness of the study and the cloister, or the other-worldliness of such poets as Dante and Milton, but the unworldliness of a man of the world, the idealism that is closely allied with humour.
And as life awakens and reality enters, either the grace or the sentiment or the passion of unworldliness is more and more distinctly present.
I mean a singularunworldliness of thought and feeling; a cherished idealism; an inborn magnanimity.
This unworldlinessis elusive, ubiquitous, full of disguise.
This can only be done by the diffusion of unworldliness and unselfishness.
The husband has very little belief in his own religion, in his unworldliness and spirituality; but he has an immense belief in the spirituality and the devotion of the being who fronts him over the breakfast-table.
The great thing is, to preserve in her that sort of luxurious unworldliness which represents the religious and refined element in the household to which she belongs.
The strangeness, the unworldliness of what she had done struck him singularly.
His kindly brown eyes rested on her with pleasure; he tried in his shy but friendly way to get at her, and there was in both of them a touch of homeliness, a sheer power of unworldliness that should have drawn them together.
What, I suppose, will strike any reader of Scott's history and writings, is his bold unworldliness and vigorous independence of mind.
And the Evangelical party itself, with their late successes, seemed to have lost that simplicity and unworldliness which I admired so much in Milner and Scott.
And if there are men so worldly as not to be attracted to unworldliness in a woman, Henderson was not one of them.
It gives a voice to the heavenly detachment and unworldliness of countless saints.
I remember fancying, when I first adopted them, that I had assumed unworldliness with them.
True religion and unworldliness are best seen, not in timidly forsaking the post which God has allotted to us, but in manfully standing our ground, and showing the power of grace to overcome evil.
Must unworldlinessbe either fanatical or mystical?
His unworldliness is true knowledge of the world, not so much a gaping and busy acquaintance as a quiet comprehension and estimation which, while it cannot come without intercourse, can very well lay intercourse aside.
It is no mere unworldliness or purity which can raise a man to this dignity.
I do not want to make lofty excuses for myself; my own unworldliness is not an abnegation at all, but a deliberate preference for obscurity.
This is not unworldlinessin the least, merely hedonism.
It might be said, "Is not unworldliness of the very essence of the new life?
And the Evangelical party itself seemed, with their late successes, to have lost that simplicity and unworldliness which I admired so much in Milner and Scott.
To speak of unworldliness to men with whom we do not associate, and who do not see our daily inconsistencies, that is not hard.
In conclusion, we have to examine the nature of this Christian unworldliness which is taught us in the text.
The principle of unworldliness is stated in the latter portion of the text; in the former part the apostle makes an application of the principle to four cases of life.
