If you love the world you will be engulfed, for the world knows only how to shipwreck a soul, it knows not how to save it.
St Augustine
What are the miseries which worldlings have to endure? Alas! everything seems to conspire to make them groan without being allowed too complain.
Pere Croiset SJ
The world is that mass of wicked men and impious libertines who refuse to believe in the truths of the gospel, because they wage war with their vices, because they confute the Saviour’s maxims, despise His mysteries, ignore His precepts, and profane His sacraments. In short, the world is the majority who follow its maxims. It is this world which you have to hate in your baptism, and which you are taught to confute, condemn, and wage war against.
Massillion
All the land is infected through the wickedness of those who dwell on it. Blood has tasted blood, the father scandalise his child, the brother lays snares for his brother, and the husband seeks for a divorce.
Massillion
The chains that bind us to the world, are pleasing to look at but hard to bear, the harm they inflict is certain, the pleasure they promise very doubtful, Those who wear them are ever busy, but never exempt from dread. Those who follow the maxims of the world experience nothing but misery.
St Augustine
There are still some amongst us, who keep themselves unspotted from the world, who imitate the early Christians.
St John Chrysostom
