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Updated: September 23, 2025
Let us not undervalue the sterling worth of the genuine Christian, because it is blended with some obvious, or even some glaring incongruities. Let us equally beware of attributing undue value to the good qualities of the worldling, and thus annihilate the distinction between the natural and spiritual character. It was happy for Hagar that the angel was sent to arrest her progress.
Is this jaded and selfish worldling the lad who, a short while back, was ready to fling away his worldly all, his hope, his ambition, his chance of life, for his love? This is the man you are proud of, old Pendennis.
"No, you heartless worldling; and neither are peace of mind, and self-respect, and whole feelings, and your little joke." "O, you you sickly sentimentalist!"
I thanked Lady Crawley, and expressed my deep interest in her altered convictions. Never have I met a more singular example of what the Truth can do for one who, as she admits, was long ago a worldling. "I have seen the vanity of it," she tells me, with tears in her eyes; and from her example I expect an AWAKENING among our worldlings. Tom is much interested in his CONVERT, as he thinks her.
Dickens, whom she describes as a dull companion, or about my father, whom she looked upon as an utter heartless worldling, to the natural spontaneous sweet flow of nature in which she lived and moved instinctively. Mr. James Payn gives, perhaps, the most charming of all the descriptions of the author of 'Our Village. He has many letters from her to quote from.
This marks off the whole-hearted believer from the worldling and worldly Christians around him: he lives consciously hidden in the secret of God's presence. Defeat and failure are always owing to the loss of God's presence. It was thus at Ai. God had brought His people into Canaan with the promise to give them the land.
The Father looked at it, and then a swift glance passed between him and the Boy. "You could see it was like pulling out teeth to part with it. Can it go up there till the Sister sends for it?" Father Brachet nodded, and the gorgeous worldling, counselling all men to "Smoke Kentucky Leaf!" was set up in the high place of honour on the mantel-shelf, beside a print of the Madonna and the Holy Child.
She wears gold spectacles, which stand out oddly against the thin whiteness of her face; she is still a handsome, distinguished woman, who can have, when she chooses, a most gracious manner. As I, worldling and jester though I am, for some mysterious reason have found favour in the lady's eyes, she manifests this graciousness whenever we foregather.
Great ladies and the country-houses courted him because of a certain wit, a certain charm above all, a certain spiritual power which piqued the worldling. He flouted and refused the great ladies with a smile, however, which gave no offence; and he knew, notwithstanding, everybody whom he wanted to know. Occasionally he made quiet spaces in his life, and disappeared from London for days or weeks.
They conquer when they thus do fall, They kill when they do die: They overcome then most of all, And get the victory. The worldling understands not this, 'Tis clear out of his sight; Therefore he counts this world his bliss, And doth our glory slight. The lubber knows not how to spring The nimble footman's stage; Neither can owls or jackdaws sing If they were in the cage.
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