He concludes: "I'm doing what I'm doing for the sake of Islam, not, you know, it's not for materialistic or worldly benefits".
Rural Zen monks helped to popularize many Buddhist rituals now common in Japan, such as prayer rites for worldly benefits, conferment of precept lineages on lay people, funerals, ancestral memorials, and exorcisms.
What I am trying to say is that a group of kids from small town Indiana who grew up without a lot of worldly benefits nevertheless have done significant things with their lives and have made a contribution to society that is greater than would have necessarily been anticipated.
However, he certainly does not think of the Beyond as actually supplying worldly benefits to people, or as being actually offended when they perform nasty actions.
Like the secular self-help gurus they promise personal growth, "recovery" and other this-worldly benefits.
If, for some, Mr. Gilder's pronouncements have the weight of Scripture, it is not simply because they promise untold this-worldly benefits.
First, there is certainly a worldly, pragmatic benefit to having a Sunday of service, whether you're serving your family, a nonprofit, your neighbors, or any combination thereof.
The core benefits of religions, unlike other, worldly institutions, often relate to the afterlife.
In place of the traditional Christian stress on bodily restraint and discipline, Bentham sought, like many other 18th-century philosophers, to promote the benefits of economic consumption, the enjoyment of worldly appetites and the liberty of natural passions.
She heard when he said to our boss, "My family lives in America," a little too loudly, for my benefit, with that generic foreign accent of the worldly Nigerian, which, I would discover later, disappeared when he became truly animated about something.
