Worldly Distraction Quotes

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

Then we have the silence of the eyes which will always help us to see God. Our eyes are like two windows through which Christ or the world comes to our hearts. Often we need great courage to keep them closed. How often we say, I wish I had not seen this thing, and yet we take so little trouble to overcome the desire to see everything.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.