The world has absorbed the Church, and the church is content that it should be so!
[Horatius Bonar]
Conformity to the world, in all ages, has proved the ruin of the church!
[Rowland Hill]
The spirit of the world is eating out the very heart and life of true godliness!
[George Everard]
Refined worldliness is the present snare of the Church of God!
[Horatius Bonar]
I believe that one reason why the church has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church!
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
Our likeness to the world consists in a likeness of character, and for that reason we are told that we must be transformed. This transformation is a change of character, it has to do, first of all, with internals, not with externals.
[Charles Naylor]
Worldly prosperity has ever been found an unfavorable soil for the growth of piety. It blinds the mind to spiritual and eternal things, dries up the spirit of prayer, fosters pride and ambition, furnishes the appropriate food to covetousness, and leads to a sinful conformity to the spirit, maxims, and fashions of the world!
[Archibald Alexander]
Real Christians have never been favorites of the world and while it continues what it is, they never can be.
[James Smith]
Don't be the slave of worldly amusements! God loves that His people should be cheerful and happy but there is little true enjoyment in the excitement of the theater, the race-course, the ball-room, the gambling-table, and the like. Choose something higher and better.
[George Everard]
Every worldly Christian hinders the progress of the gospel. Every member of a church who is living in secret sin, who is tolerating in his heart any thing that he knows to be wrong, who is not seeking eagerly his own personal sanctification, is to that extent hindering the work of the Spirit of God.
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
The temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.
[George Downame]
Our idolatrous love of worldly things is a chief cause of our knowing so little of spiritual things.
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
Many are not content, because they have so few worldly pleasures. Yet it is commonly the case that the more worldly pleasure--the less happiness there is.
[William Plumer]
Pleasure, honor and profit comprise all things in this world, and therefore are the carnal man's trinity!
[Matthew Mead]
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