Worldly Love Quotes

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.

Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out.

...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God.

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour to whip him. The world afflicts him not, because it loves him: for each man is indulgent to his own. God uses not the rod where He means to use the Word. The pillory or scourge is for those malefactors that shall escape execution.

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.

All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.