WORLDLINESS

"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

Are we Christians—or are we worldlings?

The sweeter morsel for the worm!

You have saved the best until now!

AMUSEMENTS

Our only and all-sufficient portion!

Overcoming the world!

The world's pleasures are often curses in disguise

Turn away from the lovely enchantress

The guest

A vexing vanity!

If this is happiness — then give me misery!

The great mass of nominal Christians are nothing but unconverted worldlings!

The subtle snare of worldly prosperity

We do not relinquish the vain pursuit!

You may get a ticket straight to Hell, by express!

The line between the Church and the world seems completely effaced and forgotten

Worldly prosperity

Don't be the slave of worldly amusements

Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle

The ensnaring power and deadly influence of worldly vanities!

Idiots catching flies!

The world's politics, pleasures, and pursuits

What gives the world its fatal charms?

The spirit of the world is eating out the very heart and life of true godliness

So it died, buried in pleasure

A spiritual playpen where the crying babies must be appeased

A house of fools

It makes men so filthy

WHY?

Half-hearted Christianity

When you wallow in the mud of worldly pleasures

Even though he had a shipload of such rubbish!

Will we be numbered with cat-worshipers and dog-adorers?

The deadliness of worldliness!

Better than life itself!

This precept is very extensive and important

Go dogs, and eat the garbage

The half-converted cowboy

This flattering enemy

A head full of froth!

Made for frivolities?

288 opinions about the way to happiness

Lord, dig the earth out of my heart

Wholly taken up with contriving methods of amusing themselves

Let us try and not attend to its gewgaws

The carrion which delights the crow

The deceitful harlot has bewitched you with her enchantments

Choked by life's worries, riches and pleasures!

The golden bait

The man with the muck-rake!

Your amusements

What amusements are lawful to people who wish to live a holy life?

The great god Entertainment

The best way to overcome the world

Earthly toys

Gather more worldly trinkets

The theaters are fountains of vice!

I warn you against evil Books and evil Pictures

If we spend our time on the newspaper, or sit hour after hour reading trashy novels!

We have seen such a tragic repetition of it in our own days

Giddily gliding along the broad road that leads to destruction!

Who cares for pebbles — when jewels glitter before him?

Would we know what our treasure is?

One of the broadest avenues that lead to destruction

Satan's chapel!

This is what damns men!

Is this all?

Satan's workshop

Looking firmly at the cross of Christ

This pleasure-loving, pleasure-seeking, pleasure-inventing age

A decent, flowery, down-hill way to eternal destruction

I tremble for the amount of worldliness which prevails in some professing Christian families

We are like that dove!

The most generally prevailing and ensnaring sin!

Nothing more than the common consent of fools

The burning of these old Ephesian books!

That is all they have to enjoy

The most powerful charm of Satan

Hell would be the place of greatest pleasure

Covetousness

True Christian living in the world

And then He turns the picture

Let us beware of the love of money

Prayer for weanedness from the world

How to conquer the world

Three daughters which are bred by prosperity

Why is the love of the world represented as so dangerous and destructive to the souls of men?

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity

A beautiful harlot sitting in her chariot

Christian amusements

They were as vain as the idols of modern times

Beware of the nail and the hammer

The Devil's Mission of Amusement

Why, then, are we so bewitched with vanities?

Rattles and baubles

Refined worldliness!

THE WORLD

Where does all this vanity come from?

Mr. Cox's Museum

The prosperity of the wicked

The school of thoughtlessness and vanity

The devils are scrambling for his soul

Their supreme deity

The creature has a little honey in its mouth—but it has wings!

Three golden balls

Turn off the television

If you attempt to enthrone the creature

He has altogether lost his relish for them

A painted happiness, a gilded misery

I bequeath my pastor's soul to the devil

Pleasure is not happiness!

Only another name for "Trouble"

What a happy state we are in

The plague of unsatisfiedness

Then the worm became a splendid butterfly!

When you see a dog following two men

The world's haunts of vanity

They are like the soap-bubbles which little children blow

Christ calls men to carry a cross

We could not make the angels happy

We may be in the world, and not be injured by it

The separated life

I must caution you

Here is the conclusion of the matter:

Honeyed poison

Pleasures forevermore

Alas you are likely to dance and frolic yourselves into hell

What a pitiful perishing portion is that

Its pretty things

The world's golden sands

Behold, all was vanity

There is a higher end in life than to be amused

From belly — to cards or dice

The rich followers of this poor Savior

This was his final verdict

The Bibles of worldlings

Something either to dissatisfy or nauseate

The idol of our day

Oh how sweet is

When earth's wine runs out

The foolish Indians

Would such an inscription look well on some of our costly furniture?

Beautiful bubbles

What are these Christians doing on Satan's ground?

Poison

You can't love God and the world

Analogous to the beasts!

They lick the dust

People who long to be rich

He who eats the grapes of Sodom—
will soon drink the wine of Gomorrah

The devil's chapel

My Bonfire of Vanities!

One sight of the cross

Sunk deep in the mire of worldly-mindedness

They are all really worthless

Worshipers of the golden calf

A Christian and yet a worldling?

Yellow and white guts and garbage

So many traps to catch souls

Let worldly minds the world pursue

An honest, heart-felt preference of better things

Vain and sensual amusements

The astonishing anomaly

One of the most pathetic sights in this world

That golden devil

Sweet poisons

Sweet poisons (the whole sermon)

The test of amusements

The whole life

There are some things that money cannot buy

Propensity for amusements and entertainments

A showy and expensive style of living

The prevailing sin of Christians

An unfavorable soil for the growth of piety

The great object of life

It is difficult to distinguish him from the unconverted man

A most dangerous propensity

The sooner we reach this conclusion

Something infinitely better

To damn them with delights

Ten thousand are destroyed by its smiles

Content his soul with earth's poor dust

An inundation of worldliness

Three worms which often breed in prosperity

The ways, and fashions, and amusements, and recreations of the world 

It is time that I am done with all butterfly-hunting

As long as preachers allow their sermons to be dictated by public sentiment or the worldly desires of their hearers

We must test all our pleasures and amusements by this rule:

How much did he leave?

Worldly men varnished over with religion

The pursuits of butterflies and grasshoppers, and canary birds

If you wish to become weak-headed, unstable, and good for nothing

The sum total of worldly enjoyment in those two ciphers

We find that they are empty bubbles

Ah Poor soul — it is the rich man who goes to Hell

Here we are groveling in the clay and muck of this world!

Beware then of the vortex of worldliness

The secret of being content

What a bauble

She left her heart behind her

Carnally minded

Evidently given up

The mad desire of plenty and pleasure

Snowmen

Why cling to the ash-heap?

Vacationing at resorts?

Playing with its tinsel toys

Elegance, entertainment, and luxurious gratification

A love for pleasure, diversion, and recreation

What makes the children of God so strange?

Building air-castle upon air-castle

The way to Hell looks pleasant

The only sin which may be indulged

When the honey is all sucked

Encroaching, absorbing, and destructive

We are not to set our affections on them

The great goddess Diana

Amused, entertained, seduced

The littleness of all earthly things

A remedy for everything

The shrine of Mammon

Vagrant butterflies

A cold chill fell upon their hearts

A noble indifference

The world

How much did he leave?

A golden image in the house

Enthralled with the doll or the rattle

The poor things of time and sense

Enchanting trifles

The best sermon

Slaves to the customs and temper of the world

These Gergesites had rather lose
Christ, than lose their porkers

We would soon hear all the dogs of Hell baying with all their might against us

What the whole of it meaningless?

Our godless society

The carrion which professors can now feed upon

Thorns

The world will lose its charms

Poor ephemeral things which cannot last

Break its alluring spell

These modern playthings

Fashionable sins

The world is a great enemy

Don't touch their filthy things

Strangers & Pilgrims

Groveling among the baubles of this world

A painted bauble

Fearfully secularized

If you are at home in the world

Overcoming the world

Pambus wept when he saw a harlot

Money

Do not fix your love upon your money bags

This cheap Christianity

Nothing but a huge clod of dust

I believe it to be a public duty to warn people against cheats, quacks, and impostors

Of all weary, flat, dull and unprofitable ways of spending life

Look at the smiling beauty in the ball-room

They were yet ready to go to school to the filthy Canaanites

The wilderness wanderer!

These childish dissipations

It will come in at every chink and crevice

To get another trinket

The world passes away, and the lust thereof

We chase it like a bubble in the air

We find that they are empty bubbles

This cheating and deluding scene!

The enchantment of the world?

What are all the gilded toys of time?

Swimming down the stream of vanity and folly

The crying evil of both the Church and of the world

Idolatry

We were not always a set of poor mopes

Those who hunt after it are dogs

Seriously engaged about trifles

Seductive scenes of giddiness and mirth!

Madam Bubble we have seen with her mask off, and are not to be fascinated by so ugly a witch

These fugitive, transitory things

The thorns

Painted bubbles

The rage of the present day

If you been a dog, a toad, or a serpent

Where lions have their dens and panthers prowl

That ever promising, yet ever deceiving world

Our own health, wealth, and gratification

We have expected too much from 'the creature'

A sublime fiction

One of the most childish pieces of folly

She had left her heart behind her

Slaves of the world

A state of vanity

The burdens of prosperity

An ark of safety in the flood of vanities

Romantic dreams of pleasure and earthly joy

Worldly ease and prosperity

In the world — and yet not of the world

This moral vortex

Beware of the world

Entangling things

An excessive anxiety about the innocent things of this life

A deadly enemy

Moving shadows

These boasted joys?

Earth Worm

The toys of buffoons

A worldly Christianity

Men as well as children, may be pleased with trifles

What trash does it appear

Worldliness

In the world, and yet not to be of the world

Tinsel and toys

Let me not grovel here below

Very distinct from this poor, fallen, degraded world

Intoxicating to the unregenerate heart!

One hour in hell

What a vain world it is

A worldly spirit

When you come to creep into your hole

What a poor, uncertain, dying world is this

Grovel in the dust to gather pebbles

The pursuit of worldly things

The increasing rage for novel reading

If you would live gloriously

The world passes away

The dirt-scrapers of this world?

Oh, you killers of time

It has slain its thousands

Amusements

If the world loves us, smiles on us, and speaks well of us

A powerful and ever sleepless foe

The largest slice of the well-sugared cake

The world and its nothings

The vain delights of this world

Strangers

Money

A ball, a concert, a festivity, a party

There, on the other side, is my solitary soul

A worldly Christian?

Where is your treasure?

If anyone loves the world

We were made to fly

When she kisses you

The sights and shows of this perishing world

Come out from them and be separate

Choked by life's worries, riches and pleasures

A canker into the very core of your spirituality

What vain toys

The more worldly pleasure — the less happiness

The most devouring idol in all the world

Theaters!

To separate us from worldly things

Quaff the muddy and turbulent streams of earth?

Miscalculation?

The theater

What are the ephemeral distinctions of earth?

A worldly spirit will ever peep out

What's on your Bucket List?

Separation from the ungodly world

The deadliest enemy of holiness?

This world!

A deadly snare, a fatal rock

The evil spirit which haunts the rich man

Toys Sports and games for children

Our own amusement?

We must not expect much in this base world

Petulant for toys and trifles

We convert our blessings into poisons

The muddy waters of this world

God's cure for worldliness

What phantoms they will chase

Oh, live for eternity!

The sad record of many a religious professor

The world is an old nut which we crack

The crying evil of our times

A life of ease, leisure, and luxury

They amass its gilded baubles

When it comes in the guise of a friend

The worldling's happiness

What trifles, what toys, what empty vanities

How has the fine gold become dim

The sooner we reach this conclusion ourselves

A high Christian attainment?

The world in the Christian

He is tossed from vanity to vanity

Short-lived, imperfect and unsatisfying

This world is fading away

The more worthless will this world appear

Shadowy

This ungodly world

Let us try and not attend to its gewgaws

For a moment of sinful pleasure

The net of earthly, carnal, sensual engagements

For a rational man to be so attached to a bubble, is a most irrational thing

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue

You have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do!

This poor, perishing world

Nothing on earth can satisfy the soul

Crush this fearful, powerful foe

Sad blots

Earth's glittering prizes

How poor and unsatisfying

The besetting sin of Christians

Precarious, insufficient, and ensnaring

Cruel bondage

Religious entertainment

The love of fine dress

RECREATION, SPORTS & AMUSEMENTS

The Christian and the world

The insipid frivolities of the world

Our idolatrous love of worldly things

There goes an idolater

That painted harlot

Christianity is just the jolliest thing imaginable

The ruling passion

BUTTERFLY CHRISTIANITY

Redeeming the time

Our inn?

Like the bubble on the stream

Let us live more for eternity

He awoke with everlasting flames about his ears

COVETOUSNESS

It is not worth a straw

Covetousness

The world's coveted possessions

THE BAUBLES AND THE BUBBLES OF THIS WORLD

Alas how we forget

If we could see the Crucified One?

That dear, idolized creature

Not easily observed

If you hunt the butterfly of wealth too eagerly

All the houses in this plague stricken land

A demon that has wrung the neck of many souls?

THE WORLD OR CHRIST?

Fill the soul with the world?

Lawful pursuits

The only legitimate purpose of amusement

There are dangers and perils peculiar to a state of prosperity!

GO BACK FOR THE WORLD? NEVER

The desire of the heart

If you really believe that all things under the sun are vanity

They would not be so anxious to save money

Would these satisfy you?

Christ in the heart, and the world under the feet

Our aim

If the world satisfies you

Three things that earthly riches can never do?

Worldly men varnished over with religion

What the world offers to its devotees?

They cherish the viper, though it stings them to death

Only painted pleasures?

The things the pagans are always concerned about

Worldliness

Let us use worldly things

Nothing worse can happen to a Church

This is not mine to keep

GO BACK? NEVER

A gigantic fraud

Below standard?

The devil's delight

DESIRES FOR OTHER THINGS

For a cup of pleasure

Could you grasp the world like an orange

Forgetful of Jesus?

This entangling world

A wilderness of 'bitter sweets'

The Christian and the world...

Your treasure

Your treasures?

Beware of pleasures

But you are dead

This world brings only 'change'

SATAN'S CONVENTION

Infected and enfeebled

Lasting and sure happiness

Have nothing to do with them

How many, O how many

Here is a prohibition and an admonition

Can Hollywood and Holiness co-exist?

Busy yourselves about toys and trifles

A PRESENT RELIGION

The Vanity of All Worldly Things

Christ and the world

While we mourn over our many maladies

The world, so fair, so fascinating

The Christian and the Theater

The Evils of Theater-going

Popular Amusements

Worldliness

Pride and Worldliness
 

 

 
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