Sentence examples for worldly values from inspiring English sources

In short order, the restaurant became a retrograde institution, and the eating of prepared food a sign of attachment to deplorable worldly values.

"For me it is a kind of believing in deeper values than worldly values," said Isak Gerson, a philosophy student at Uppsala University who helped found the church in 2010 and bears the title chief missionary.

"It became a rather sour family joke that I had inherited the characteristics of Mother's paternal grandmother, a comic legend in the family for the naïveté of her worldly values," he wrote in his memoir, "A Writer's Capital," published in 1974.

Almost all of these Holiness bodies arose in order to facilitate the proclamation of a second-blessing experience of sanctification with its concomitants, a life of separation from worldly values and adherence to practical holiness views, according to the Holiness churches, that were no longer endorsed by the larger denominations.

Despite the success of Le Devin du village, or rather because of its success, Rousseau felt that, as a moralist who had decided to make a break with worldly values, he could not allow himself to go on working for the theatre.

His scepticism, and disrespect for worldly values, were never tamed and became ever more confidently eccentric.

On Wikipedia, articles about Star Wars or Star Trek are often better referenced, longer and more passionately debated than those that are more important by almost any sense of worldly value, such as events during the Second World War, the lives of major historical figures, or even religions (and that's before you start listing YouTube celebrities).

Baron's reconstruction of civic humanism was not only directed against other-worldly values and notions of medieval deference, but also against different modes of construing modernity in terms of the autonomy of the self.

The resulting exaltation of liberty combined patriotic self-defense with the upholding of a republican way of life that departed from medieval ways by asserting worldly (diesseitig) values and embracing the active life in a manner evocative of the republics of antiquity.

Luther's separation of worldly and Evangelical values, soon made binding law by Lutheran governments, brought an abrupt end to the early phase of the Reformation, during which events seemed to many to be moving toward a sweeping transformation of social, as well as religious, structures.

In "The Crack-Up," it is failing through bad budgeting of every kind — money, sex, booze — to remain in possession of a form of worldly success whose value is taken for granted.