But heere mee thinke I heare the lukewarme worldling of our times, fume & chafe, and aske what needs all this adoe for zeale, as if all Gods people were not zealous enough.
The worldling looks at our daily life, and soon judges whether or not we are satisfied with Christ.
Let the worldling keep his portion and clutch his paltry treasures till they crumble to dust beneath his eager fingers, but let "My soul to heaven aspire, And fix its all on God.
But, in this last desperate throw, did the worldling gain the wealth, station, and honour he coveted?
ONE more eager, almost fierce struggle with alluring fortune, in which the worldling came near steeping his soul in crime, and then fruitless ambition died in his bosom.
One more eager, almost fierce struggle with alluring fortune, with which the worldling came near steeping his soul in crime, and then fruitless ambition died in his bosom.
So theworldling proved, after a bitter experience, which may you be spared!
But in this last desperate throw did the worldling gain the wealth, station, and honour he coveted?
In the watches of the night she had decided that it was her duty to use her influence to lead this dear worldling into better ways, and, to his credit be it said, the dear worldling appeared most eager to be reformed.
I will therefore be the richer by charitable laying out, while the worldling will be poorer by his covetous hoarding up.
At the bars he stands, an absolute worldling and pagan, full of an insatiable curiosity and an endless hunger and thirst.
Marlowe's devil is of the solemn earlier kind, not yet degraded into the worldling whom Goethe has immortalised.
Nominally the people's interests were in the hands of the Public Prosecutor, a certain smug young worldling named Ellis.
Nor let any worldling please himself with this, and say, My thoughts are taken up about my calling; for his calling itself is perverted by him, and made a carnal work to carnal ends, when it should be sanctified.
How easily can the love of money find matter for the thoughts of the worldling from one year to another?
Why doth theworldling over-love his wealth, and the proud man his greatness and repute, and the sensualist his pleasures, but because they first over-love that flesh and self which all these are but the provision for.
If the ambitious or covetous worldling saw the devil offer him the bait, and heard him say, "All this will I give thee;" he would have the smaller list to take the bait.
Every worldling knoweth that he must die, and therefore he would have heaven at last for a reserve, rather than hell.
The worldling makes provision cheaper by getting and sparing; but the drunkard and glutton make it dearer by wasting.
She was not, of course, aware that the part of the giddy worldling was Jim's own conception of the character of Clarence.
A worldling might swear, to look at you, that such flesh and color must come in some way from good meat and good wine; but we remember how the three children throve on the pulse and rejected the meat from the king's table.
Or was it too sublime to be communicated to such a base worldling as I?
And sweet as the voice which spoke at that time was now the tenor that softly, softly hushed the restless spirit of the worldling to slumber.
The oldworldling left the window, took a chair exactly opposite to mine, and looked at me steadily, with a hard and vicious smile.
That reference to the occasion on which I had obliged him to postpone his business to mine, when we were both visiting in Montagu Square, satisfied me that the old worldling had come to Brighton with some object of his own in view.
To the worldling those heavenly joys were nothing but a continuation of the pleasures and excitements of this life, serving to choke any reflections which, in spite of himself, might occasionally visit him about the vanity of human wishes.
Thus, even if the voluptuary is sometimes a poet and the worldling often an honest man, they both lack reason so entirely that reflection revolts equally against the life of both.
The fanatic is, notwithstanding, nothing but a worldling too narrow and violent to understand the world, while the mystic is a sensualist too rapt and voluptuous to rationalise his sensations.
But the poor worldling seeks this world as his only thing, and if he want it, what hath he more?
Sure the worldling thinks not that he serves his riches, yet Christ puts that construction upon his loving them well, Christ calls any thing that is a man’s master his god.
The worldling hath no other joy but carnal mirth, no other grief but that which is carnal, these are limited within the bounds of time.
It is Dodd's sister; and he will introduce me at a word, worldling as I am.
Then, to get rid of Alfred before Julia's return, the amiable worldling turned to Edward.
And I am very sorry I have not an amiable worldling for my sister, instead of an unamiable and devilish conceited Christian.
What humiliation and fury: what pangs of sickening rage, balked ambition and love; what wounds of outraged vanity, tenderness even, had this old worldling now to suffer under!
Until this dauntless worldling came in and broke the spell, and lifted the latch, we too have forborne to enter into that sad chamber.
These were men whose character compared with that of the worldling was saintly; men whose shoes' latchets the worldling is not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
But place either of them in the most crowded thoroughfare of the city, and the worldling would be made for a time as meditative as the other.
There was too much of the worldlingin the looks, dress, air, and manner of Stevens, to satisfy the rustic of his sincerity.
The sneer and sarcasm of the worldling would anticipate the favoring judgment of the indulgent and the wise.
She must be a worldling in the best sense of the word.
The wild he tames, and spoils the mirth Of all that wanton are, He takes the worldling from his worth, And poor man from his care.
The world thinks they are looking down upon us, but no worldling on this mundane globe ever looks down on the palm tree saint as he walks the narrow, heavenly trail, practically oblivious of conditions below.
Let not any worldling think that he is looking down on God's holy ones; they are looking down on him and they are so far above, that he looks like a mere dot upon the surface.
