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    worldly


    1. They meet fellow-devotees and withdraw from an interest in worldly matters, except those of the family and close relations


    2. We were not told that destroying our environment in the quest for our worldly comforts is immoral


    3. · The rules of Dharma have been laid down for regulating the worldly affairs of men


    4. Spirituality is usually associated with renunciation of the worldly attractions


    5. She considered herself a little more worldly than when she was mortal, but she hadn't lived to be that old as a mortal, only thirty seven


    6. Closer investigation later revealed that Bugle Boy’s last worldly act was a failed effort to lift a Boston Cream donut to his mouth


    7. His worldly goods fetched a laughable sum, but who would need money on the mountain? He did need good boots, but that was all


    8. Joris plainly wanted you to inherit his worldly goods … that would have shouted to the world what he felt about you


    9. By the time that she had whacked him with the frying pan six or seven times, kicked his shins repeatedly and doused him in an entire litre of Vimto, Danny’s other worldly cool had been completely shattered


    10. This is the role of the Christian Satanic male in the Worldly Oppositional

    11. forth in this statement then it is not rightfully called a Worldly Oppositional


    12. Creativity is not only encouraged in the Worldly Oppositionist religion it is


    13. Where will you find the Worldly


    14. what he or she has a Worldly Oppositional Church


    15. The Abstract Realization of the Worldly


    16. The Worldly Oppositional Church is in all places


    17. The Worldly Oppositional Church is an abstract premise and is created


    18. You will then have created a Worldly Oppositional Cult


    19. Danny’s other worldly cool had been completely shattered


    20. They were concerned with possessions, worldly fame, and

    21. Reportedly, he died weighing less than one hundred pounds, and the value of all of his worldly possessions was less than $2


    22. “Oh, I think he’s grown more wary, more worldly as the years have gone by


    23. estimate of things (oftentimes) based on his or her OWN pre-conceptions, (personal) experiences or worldly viewpoints


    24. If one allows that worldly values are the off-springs of worldly customs, (alone); that is to say, restricted to non-spiritual matters, and that eternal values are necessarily eternal in meaning; neither limited by space nor time, which would otherwise render them meaningless and incomprehensive in form; universal or eternal Values must necessarily embrace all existence, including the ―Material‖ that (always) was, is and will become, without exception; the expression or starting point of God‘s own Creation, in His own Image consonant with His own laws or (Eternal Values), whose impressions have been (indelibly) stamped on all things potentially eternal


    25. By this argument alone, worldly and eternal cannot be separated otherwise such equivocations that must inevitably follow would negate the eternal order of things that transcends, although embracing, the worldly order of things each in conjunction with Eternal Designs


    26. because not every (worldly) assumption is completely false as others are not completely true


    27. Wisecracking, precocious young children superseding the worldly ―wisdom‖ of their well-meaning but oftentimes bumbling parents, more often than not, the father; portrayed as ‖agreeable‖, however (somewhat) pompous, over-bearing, self-regarding and someone who just ―doesn‘t get it


    28. It is unlikely that Science will ever satisfactorily explain the Initial Movement that remains an eternal exception contrary to (worldly) causes and (their) effects and that God could not have created Himself because He always Was


    29. The War on Terror is encountering a great deal of opposition from the (hard) Left who continue to advance the notion of American Moral Culpability; that is to say, that America is the (historical) root cause of (all) worldly grievances and should therefore make every conceivable effort to redress certain points of contention that have evolved from its own (alleged) transgressions; thereby giving (justifiable) cause to the underlying motives that led up to the events of 9/11


    30. I would like to propose a hypothetical question to the progressive reader: If given a choice, which of the following options would you choose: having been created in God‘s (own) Image or having descended from the apes? Should you choose the former, how come so many of you are willing to embrace evolutionary arguments that have been widely discredited rather than entertain the Divine Wisdom of scriptural teachings that offer a more plausible explanation for our existence? Why restrict your beliefs to worldly perceptions or ideas encumbered by the limits of your (finite) senses rather than explore the wondrous miracle of the human imagination, both moral and intellectual, or ―a capacity for self-transcendence‖ (Reinhold Niebuhr) uncommon among the Beast?

    31. After all, what did Christ and his Apostles really look like? Has anyone ever encountered an Angel? Such (abstract) personifications remain open to interpretation; a (worldly) convenience to meet its own special requirements rather than an unqualified expression grounded on historical accuracy


    32. Free Will is not absolute in any worldly manner because it is oftentimes influenced by internal conditions that remain vague and uncertain; that is to say, lacking absolute (consensual) authority; subject to an individual‘s moral, intellectual and material orientation that (nevertheless) seeks to follow God‘s purposeful intentions


    33. Because Humankind‘s (natural) designs are oftentimes restricted by its limited, (worldly) conceptions, understood in terms of its (temporal) dimensions, it (necessarily) follows that the outcome of its intended actions must remain (largely) unknown until they have been (formally) determined


    34. True religion did not focus on worldly things of course, and yet, even the most religious had engaged in this kind of thievery


    35. When I was completely satisfied that I had disposed of all my worldly possessions, I went to work with the same legal pad making my plan for finding and destroying the person or persons who had ruined Mia"s life and my happiness


    36. I would go further and say that the finger points especially at the evangelical part of the church, much of which seems to be obsessed with very worldly issues such as numbers, buildings, equipment, power, control and money


    37. I additionally propose that Jesus’ death upon the cross, was and is a parable, a simplified example, standing in place of something of far wider worldly significance


    38. Their Temple was finally and utterly destroyed in their revolt of AD 66–70 and their worldly state in AD 132–35, but the end of the old made way for the new, it might be said


    39. This was seen to be an apocalyptic prediction of the end that all worldly forces, powerful as they might be, would come to


    40. Swami Maharaj, to improve the worldly lives of the supplicants, was to

    41. The Mongols could have had all of Europe, but they withdrew because tradition dictated that they pay a final tribute to their great leader who had been unhorsed at the height of his worldly achievements


    42. the two incarnations is that they both renounced worldly life at a


    43. But his successes seemed to distract him to where in the end, unlike Joshua, he had experimented with the beliefs of the many wives that he had taken because of his worldly associations


    44. tuned into worldly desires that we shut off all communications from


    45. huckstering, and he saw the Jews’ worldly god as money


    46. Meredith seldom thought of such a worldly matter as his stipend; but the managers were more practical


    47. All the worldly advantages it is in your power to bestow on her could not compensate for the loss of a father's love and care


    48. And leaving their worldly goals, lovers and the remembrances,


    49. Of the eight worldly concerns,


    50. Square: Not open to truth; religious as in a form of Godliness but powerless; worldly; mercy seat; the altar of God; breastplate; the city of God; mercy














































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    Synonyms for "worldly"

    blase worldly secular temporal urbane sophisticated suave mundane natural earthly common

    "worldly" definitions

    characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world


    very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world