{"quotes":[{"text":"Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?","author":"Leonard Ravenhill","tags":["challenging","conviction","materialism","spiritual-life","worldliness"],"id":82428,"author_id":"Leonard+Ravenhill"},{"text":"Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["awareness","clarity","consciousness","focus","foresight","inner-vision","inner-voice","insight","inspiring","knowing-yourself","life-lesson","life-philosophy","mindfulness","motivational","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","self-belief","worldliness"],"id":105728,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.","author":"Stella Adler","tags":["acting","history","learning","life-lessons","studying","worldliness"],"id":161419,"author_id":"Stella+Adler"},{"text":"The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or waste your time trying to look right, you will never achieve contentment and emotional balance. People you encounter in life can’t be controlled by you. You only have control of yourself. Build your life around a relationship with a higher power and achieving what you’re passionate about. When you let go of what you can’t control, true peace can then enter your life. This is the path to achieving emotional balance.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adversity","anxiety","authentic-self","balance","buddhism","careers","christianity","competition","confidence","dignity","emotional-balance","emotional-pain","false-confidence","false-righteousness","freedom","hidden-agendas","insecurities","letting-go","life-lessons","men","moving-on","need-for-control","need-to-be-right","need-to-compete","perspective","piety","relationships","role-model-for-kids","role-model-for-teenagers","satan-s-trick","seeing-others","seeing-yourself","self-esteem","self-love","self-respect","self-worth","spiritual-awakening","true-peace","women","worldliness","worry","wrong-reasons"],"id":189352,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad through inherited instincts. If they do good, they believe they are to receive the credit for it; if they do evil, they deny that it is their own fault. They are good through their own goodheartedness, they say; but they are bad because they are misfortunate, either in their economic life or through an inheritance of evil genes from their grandparents. The nice people rarely come to God; they take their moral tone from the society in which they live. Like the Pharisee in front of the temple, they believe themselves to be very respectable citizens. Elegance is their test of virtue; to them, the moral is the aesthetic, the evil is the ugly. Every move they make is dictated, not by a love of goodness, but by the influence of their age. Their intellects are cultivated—in knowledge of current events; they read only the bestsellers, but their hearts are undisciplined. They say that they would go to church if the Church were only better—but they never tell you how much better the Church must be before they will join it. They sometimes condemn the gross sins of society, such as murder; they are not tempted to these because they fear the opprobrium which comes to them who commit them. By avoiding the sins which society condemns, they escape reproach, they consider themselves good par excellence.","author":"Fulton J. Sheen","tags":["hypocrisy","self-righteousness","sin","worldliness"],"id":196361,"author_id":"Fulton+J.+Sheen"},{"text":"It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["christianity","discipleship","worldliness"],"id":201583,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"…mischief, …arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections.","author":"Karen Swallow Prior","tags":["affection","heart","humanity","inherent-evil","need","sin-nature","worldliness"],"id":202975,"author_id":"Karen+Swallow+Prior"},{"text":"Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness.","author":"Charles Haddon Spurgeon","tags":["compromise","discipleship","worldliness"],"id":217219,"author_id":"Charles+Haddon+Spurgeon"},{"text":"The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["arcbishop","bishop","christ","devil","evangelism","evil","evil-thoughts","flesh","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","jesus","jesus-christ","mind","pastor","preaching","press","satan","satanic","sermon","sin","sinner","soul","temp","temptation","temptor","the-word-of-god","thought","thoughts","worldliness"],"id":218623,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in all the world.","author":"John Wesley","tags":["affliction","christianity","god","idolatry","suffering","worldliness"],"id":262990,"author_id":"John+Wesley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}