Worldliness

The same desire for worldliness had long motivated him to make poetry translations into English eligible, with 60 percent of the money going to the translator.

The experience is immediately humbling, reflective and meditative and perfect for appreciating a power beyond, rather than being captured in selfish worldliness.

We take shelter from the storm of worldliness and ignorance in the peaceful home of scholarship, frugality and learning.

It is difficult to consider the crisis of faith in the West apart from this worldliness.

In some religions, worldliness (also called carnality) is that which relates to this world as opposed to other worlds or realms.

Martin, too, had denounced the worldliness and greed of the Gaulish bishops and clergy.

On the other hand, in spite of his worldliness, Leo prayed, fasted, went to confession before celebrating Mass in public, and conscientiously participated in the religious services of the church.

Such renunciates are accorded high respect in Hindu society, because their outward renunciation of selfishness and worldliness serves as an inspiration to householders who strive for mental renunciation.

The false other-worldliness of the Gnostics leads to immorality (ch. 15).

These white robes of heavy material stressed the nuns' other-worldliness amid the exotic native surroundings.

The three retain an ongoing relevance for both religious and secular readers, Job and Ecclesiastes through the boldness of their dissent from received tradition, Proverbs in its worldliness and satiric shrewdness.

Values involve a rank-ordering of things, and so are inseparable from approval and disapproval; yet it was dissatisfaction that prompted men to seek refuge in other-worldliness and embrace other-worldly values.