unworldliness

In conclusion, we have to examine the nature of this Christian unworldliness which is taught us in the text.

Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson

Henry, however, had the improvidence or the "unworldliness" of his race; returning to the country during the succeeding vacation, he married for love, relinquished, of course, all his collegiate prospects and advantages, set up a school in his father's neighborhood, and buried his talents and acquirements for the remainder of his life in a curacy of forty pounds a year.

Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821

We are so much accustomed to associate religious doubts or convictions with an unworldliness which is rarely visible where great worldly success is attained, that on leaving the cloisters of Oxford, and entering with him the committee-rooms of the Houses of Parliament, we seem to behold the curtain raised all at once, and the same actor appearing in a totally new character, with hardly a feature left that can identify him with the previous representation.

Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Robert Ornsby 1854

The English national church has long been an object of derision, and the current Archbishop of Canterbury succeeds in uniting the substance and appearance of foolishness and unworldliness not with sanctity, but with sanctimony.

Suicide of the West « Anglican Samizdat 2010

It took me years to come to terms with the experiences of my childhood, and my own challenges in handling the cultural distance and social consequences of my environment's unworldliness and my own internalized prejudice.

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: A Woman Without a Country 2010

This hero of unworldliness and self-sacrificing charity had devoted himself to the care of the sick during the great plague of 1400, when he was but twenty.

St Bernardine of Siena 2009

This hero of unworldliness and self-sacrificing charity had devoted himself to the care of the sick during the great plague of 1400, when he was but twenty.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

The attraction of Thatcherism was re-enforced by the Right being clearly right on defence and nuclear weapons I didn't then realise that many on the Left did not share the CND unworldliness.

Why Jack of Kent Turned Left Jack of Kent 2009

Their very impracticality and unworldliness was what attracted me to them.

Times are hard... for philosophers... Ann Althouse 2009

Edgar Allan Poe wrote, the year before his death, "in the sense of the most utter unworldliness."

Archive 2009-04-01 Rus Bowden 2009