Do not consider a worldly spirit as a little infirmity;
as a natural, and therefore a pardonable weakness;
as a trifling error, which will be overlooked for the sake of our many good qualities.
A worldly spirit is, in fact the essence of our other faults,
the temper that stands between us and our salvation,
the spirit which is in direct opposition to the Spirit of God.
Individual sins may more easily be cured, but a worldly spirit is the principle of all spiritual disease.
A worldly spirit, where it is rooted and cherished, runs through the whole character, insinuates itself in all we say, and think, and do. It is this which makes us so dead in religion,
so averse to spiritual things,
so forgetful of God,
so unmindful of eternity!
[Hannah More]
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1 John 2:15-17 ... Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
James 4:4 ... Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Acts 15:29 ... That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.❤
