To live an unworldly life; never to seek place or power or wealth by making the least sacrifice of conscience or principle; is it easy?
When we think of this it will seem all the more strange, the more unworldly and divine to find that in these very chapters our Lord speaks more often, and with more emphasis, of JOY than in any other part of the New Testament.
There is something so above human nature in this--it is such unworldly sweetness, such celestial patience, that it is difficult for us at our usual level of life to understand it.
Scarcely so unworldly on the whole as our good Yorick generally is!
They are to show in their disposal of money that they act on unworldly principle, that the spirit of heaven teaches them how to use it.
Here, more than with Ananias, it was simple ignorance of the spiritual andunworldly character of the Kingdom of Christ.
But a good wife--a good unworldly woman--may really help a man, and keep him more independent.
But he is really a disinterested, unworldly fellow," said Mr. Farebrother, smiling.
I suppose you don't conduct business on what you call unworldly principles.
Utopias were once in good faith, projects for a fresh creation of the world and of a mostunworldly completeness; this so-called Modern Utopia is a mere story of personal adventures among Utopian philosophies.
It is a vague, impossible ideal, with a rude sort of unworldlymoral beauty, like the gospel of the Doukhobors.
The difference in her simple attire from the full dress all around her in no wise disturbed her unworldly spirit.
Long ago we knew her as an unworldly girl, whose peachblow coloring gave to her face its chief beauty, although her plaintive blue eyes and smooth brown hair called forth a certain protective faith in her simplicity and goodness.
No; Owen Meredith is a favorite poet of mine; there is something very unworldlyand beautiful about his verses.
That is why you like them--you are so unworldly yourself.
They help the mind in its effort to set itself apart to unworldly pursuits; they are indications of separateness from the prevailing fashions and frivolities.
As she looked up a perfectly radiant smile illuminated her usually plain face, an unworldly expression of such purity and happiness that she seemed actually beautiful to the priest, who stopped, hesitating, upon the threshold.
And there is also something of order and discipline in the uniforming of a community set apart for an unworldly purpose.
But there was nothing to warn her personally in these unworldly confessions.
You will never convince people that you areunworldly this way.
Jack saw and comprehended for the first time in his life the real nature of a pure woman, the depths of tenderness and self-abnegation, the heroism and calm trust and the nobility of an unworldly life.
Would he love her if she were as unworldly as she once was?
Other friends told the Marches that they had lost all chance of being remembered in the rich old lady's will, but the unworldly Marches only said.
He gave many thanks, passed out From that unworldly place into the world.
He waited in the wide and humble room, The only room in that unworldly place This world could enter; and the pictures looked Upon his face and down into his soul, And strangely stirred him.
An unworldly man, and never specially fond of society or anxious about its edicts and its opinions, he did not suffer, as many men might have done, under his knowledge of its surprised pity for him, or even contempt.
And from lungs surely made of brass came forth the fierce songs that have been thrown back from the Nile's brown banks perhaps since the Sphinx first set his unworldly eyes towards eternity.
Beth beamed at them from a distance, while Mr. and Mrs. March surveyed the young couple with such tender satisfaction that it was perfectly evident Aunt March was right in calling them as "unworldly as a pair of babies.
There was in them a touch of the genuine unworldly simplicity which forms part of your character.
I think so," I recognize the true unworldly ring of YOUR metal.
She was leaning over from her seat, looking, black as she was, so much older than her wont, with something about her of that unworldly serious thoughtfulness which a mourning garb always gives.
He would find no other friend so generous, so romantic, so unworldly as the Duchess had been.
But these younger Liberals were interested in the Tractarian innovators, and, in a degree, sympathised with them as a party of movement who had had the courage to risk and sacrifice much for an unworldly end.
As a rule, in such books, the whole conception of boyhood seems at fault; a boy is generally represented as a generous, heedless, unworldly creature.
To-day it is as quaint and unworldly as it was when capital of the province.
Iholdy and its few unpretentious little shops and its quaint unworldly little hotel caters only to a thin population of sheep and pig growers, and their wants are small, save when they go afield to Peyrehorade, St. Jean or Bayonne.
It is an unworldly sleepy place, though its commerce in cheeses is enormous.
At any rate, it is an exceedingly unworldly sort of a place, with here and there remains of its bold ramparts and its zigzag and tortuous streets, but with no very great grandeur anywhere to be remarked, except in the Eglise St. Maclou.
Monica and Margaret now impressed him with their unworldly beauty in a strange way, for they became sinister figures like the Lady Geraldine in Christabel, sly, malignant sylphs set in ambush to haunt the romantic path of his love.
And for this and other unworldly persistencies, the heathen tyrant Maximin would have broken her on a wheel, but that "fire came down from heaven, sent by the destroying angel of God, and broke the wheel in pieces.
All that we know of his life suggests a reserved, sensitive, andunworldly nature.
In like manner, men of high, unworldly natures are often reverenced by those who are somewhat puzzled what to do with them practically.
George was a Christian man;—he had been one of the first to attach himself to the unpopular and unworldly ministry of the celebrated Dr.
If we represent things as they are, their intensity, their depth, their unworldly gravity and earnestness, must inevitably repel lighter spirits, as the reverse pole of the magnet drives off sticks and straws.
In a community thus unworldly must have arisen a mode of thought, energetic, original, and sublime.
She smiled, too, a little embarrassed: "How could I be anything but frank in return for your very unworldly generosity?
