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Updated: June 26, 2025
'Like the beasts that perish, says one of the psalms, the men become who, by the acids and the files of worldliness and sensuality and passion, have so rubbed away the likeness of God that it is scarcely perceptible in them. Do I speak to some such now? If there is nothing else left there is this, a hunger for absolute good and for the satisfaction of your desires.
The little he taught her sounded to Noemi's puzzled ears mere Christianity instead of controversial Calvinism. And, moreover, he never blamed her for wicked worldliness when she yawned; but even devised opportunities for taking her out for a walk, to see as much life as might be on a market-day.
The question tormented me, whether in the end it were better to follow in the dazzling wake of this all-conquering worldliness, and by crushing all my scruples arise to a new life of careless, thoughtless gaiety, like Alice Merivale's; or whether the whispers of my better impulse were the more salutary and satisfactory of the two, and bound me in all conscience to an obedience and sanction of its precepts.
Can any one going into the Methodist church in any of our chief cities distinguish the attire of the communicants from that of the theater and ball-goers? Is not worldliness seen in the music?
"It's merely that you have roused me to a sense of my own general worldliness and worthlessness," he replied, laughing as they shook hands. "I guess Sylvia can tell you a good many things, Daniel," said Mrs. Owen. "I wish you'd call Myers he's my Seymour farmer on the long distance in the morning, and tell him not to think I won't be down to look at his corn when I get back.
So now you have my reasons; some smack of the disinterestedness of former days, others of my present worldliness; you may believe which you please." And the Major laughed as he finished his speech.
It is true that the practical work of the churches in their helpful ministry through the various organizations working in the camps has brought many of the men into vital contact with religion for the first time. But the war has revealed the lack of the churches' hold upon the men in pre-war times. Criticism of its worldliness.
Eugénie de Netteville, poseuse, schemer, woman of the world that she was, was losing command of herself. 'What did you really mean by "worldliness" and the "world" in your lecture last Sunday? she asked him suddenly, with a little accent of scorn. 'I thought your diatribes absurd.
She thought dancing and card-playing dangerous pastimes only rough people did such things when she was a girl in Vermont and "worldliness" only another word for wickedness. According to her conception of education, one should learn, not think; and above all, one must not enquire. The history of the human race, as it lay behind one, was already explained; and so was its destiny, which lay before.
Lady Maulevrier felt that Georgie Kirkbank was her strong rock. So long as Lesbia was under that astute veteran's wing there could be no danger. In that embodied essence of worldliness and diplomacy, there was an ever-present defence from all temptations that spring from romance and youthful impulses.
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