Sentence examples for worldly importance from inspiring English sources
If Hardin is right and the point here is not to claim that he is, but rather to point out the worldly importance of determining which games agents are in fact playing then the mere presence of an external enforcer (NATO?) would not have changed the game, pace the Hobbesian analysis, since the enforcer could not have threatened either side with anything worse than what each feared from the other.
Monasticism involves disregarding the importance of worldly goods and ambitions, and embracing poverty, chastity and obedience, with prayer at the center of monk life.
"There's a synergy between being quiet in the heart as well as acting out in the world as Christ". Monasticism involves disregarding the importance of worldly goods and ambitions, and embracing poverty, chastity and obedience, with prayer at the center of monk life.
In 1966 the critic Max-Pol Fouchet argued that Sartre, who refused all honours, declined the Nobel in defence of "the solitude of the revolutionary writer", in denunciation of "worldly and external self-importance".
Sure, worldly success is important.
While one's appetite for worldly delights does fade in importance, a person's spiritual strivings needn't conflict with one's material tastes and necessities.
In the Protestant case this meant the emergence of other-worldly theologies that denied the importance of these world events.
Toward the end of the Middle Ages, there was a renewed interest in those studies that stressed the importance of man, his faculties, affairs, worldly aspirations, and well-being.
In this context worldly interests and government itself are dwarfed by the importance of attaining salvation and of escaping from an astrologically determined fate and from the demons who embody the darkness.
The other‐worldly nature of much of Christian orthodoxy makes it difficult for Christians to deal with something like the Jewish notion of the religious importance of land.
