Worldly

Famous quotes containing the word worldly:

    Have you never been moved by poor men’s fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man’s dream—and yet God blesses it!
    Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)

    The weariest and most loathed worldly life
    That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
    Can lay on nature is a paradise
    To what we fear of death.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    With this Ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
    Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Wedding,” (1662)