Somehow she found it difficult to think of him as ever having been poor; he was so completely marked with the stamp of worldly success.
He did all he could to make you, like himself, indifferent to worldly things; and my father feared you would pride yourself on refusing to claim your rights, unless some counter-influence were used.
And it complicates our lives, delivers us to our enemies, defeats all our worldly aims, renders us helpless at the moment when we should be most strong.
In neither case is this personage a man of high culture or worldly position.
Ecstatic joy is the dominant note of Sufism, a joy which was of other-worldly origin, and compatible with the deepest tranquillity, and by which we are made like to the Ever-rejoicing One.
A proof of his cleverness exists in his having lived in grandeur, opulence, and worldly happiness, while making people believe that he condemned such things.
Tis enough that she is of noble blood from father and mother; and I have fortune for us both; and worldly wisdom--bah!
Sir John Penwick had left England, taking all his worldly goods--which were of no mean value--with him.
No one could associate Hugh with Mr. Worldly Wiseman, and surely Mary Treleaven was a fit mate for such a man.
Much as I should like to recover my old belief in him, much as it would be to my worldly advantage to marry a wealthy Bengali barrister with talents and influence which are certain to lead to rapid promotion in his native land (~JAB.
Any one who has taken pains at spiritual culture must admit that the great enemy to a devout concentration of mind is the force of bodily and worldly desire.
His peerless oratorical and literary gifts were employed in elevating the ascetic ideal and in unsparing denunciations of the worldly religion of the imperial court.
Evidently we cannot attain to worldly prosperity except by God's help--his blessing on our efforts.
Not much worldly wisdom in either of you, I think, my dear girls," remarked Mrs. Keith with an amused smile.
But I had long since placed all the prospects of my future worldly happiness in the still enjoyments of the fireside at Mount Vernon.
Joan of Arc achieved far more instant and incredible worldly success; but Joan of Arc achieved worldly success because she believed in another world.
First, since all our spiritual epochs overlap, and a man is often doing the old work while he is thinking of the new, we may deal first with what may be fairly called his last two plays of pure worldly criticism.
I bequeath to you no worldly wealth, for as the Lord is my inheritance, so do I desire that He should be yours.
Studying her love of retirement, they will pray for grace to resist worldly influences, and following her to the miserable homes of the destitute, they will aspire to become, like her, angels of comfort to the desolate and sorrowing.
Her worldly ties thus broken at the early age of twenty-two, the young widow deliberated how she could most profitably dispose of herself and her possessions for the glory of God.
He dwelt upon the unsatisfactory nature of all earthly pleasures, the disappointment inseparably connected with mereworldly aspirations, the only sure hope of forgiveness of sins, the need of repentance, the certainty of peace.
Crowded with crisp epigrams and worldly philosophy, this book on Love may be studied without exhausting its wisdom and machiavellianism.
But once seated, pen in hand, the wise, worldlycynic was again master.
With all his display of worldly wisdom Stendhal really loved but three times in his life; this statement may shock some of his disciples who see in him a second Casanova, but a study of his life will prove it.
He has the misfortune of being married to a worldly woman who does not attempt to understand him, much less to love him.
Always extreme, Huysmans jumped from the worldly audacities of Manet to the rebellious Christ of Grünewald.
That which generally comes next on the rubric of duties towards ourselves may be divided partly into rules of worldly wisdom, partly into hygienic prescriptions; but neither class belongs to Morals in the proper sense.
I dare say if you let the people in the shops know that you come from a newspaper, it'll be a help," she went on with ingenuous worldly wisdom.
Speaking generally, it was a society in which good breeding, literary taste, general information, and personal distinction counted for much more than worldly or official status.
How different is a walk with a religious[165] man from one with a vulgar, worldly soul!
Diderot, like many other men of energetic nature unchastened by worldly wisdom, was too interested in everything that attracted his attention to keep silence over the indiscretion of a friend.
