Worship is the true remedy for worldliness. Both cannot exist together. —Samuel Ridout

Beware of the first step towards the world. If you refuse the first step, you need never fear the second. —A.J. Pollock

The world (literally age) as used in Romans 12:2 means the society or system that man has built in order to make himself happy without God. —William MacDonald

The world has its own politics, art, music, religion, amusements, thought patterns, and lifestyles, and it seeks to get everyone to conform to its culture and customs. It hates non-conformists—like Christ and His faithful followers. —William MacDonald

The child of God is called out of the world to be holy. To be holy and to live holy will cause us to be uncompromising and intolerant of the things of the world. —Charlie Tempest

The more devoted we are to the Saviour and the more sold-out we are to Him, the less time we will have for worldly pleasures and amusements. —William MacDonald

It is not our weaknesses that hinder divine communications from being granted us; it is our worldliness and our disobedience. —H.L. Rossier

If the spirit of the world is in anyone, he will always find the path of faith too narrow for him to walk in. —C.H. Mackintosh

Christ died to deliver us from the world. Now the world is crucified to us and we to it. It is positive treason for believers to love the world in any of its forms. —William MacDonald

The Christian who allows the world even a little room in his heart, instead of treating it as an enemy, will by degrees get under its servitude, and will perhaps close his career in the sore humiliation of defeat. —H.L. Rossier

The measure of our devotion to Christ is the measure of our separation from the world. —C. Stacey Woods

We are in danger of going to the world or of letting it come in to us. Perhaps the latter possibility is even more dangerous than the first. —H.L. Rossier

Only Christ can influence the world; but all that the world sees of Christ is what it sees of Him in the life of His followers. Therefore, a Christian's usefulness depends solely upon his relationship to Christ and the accuracy with which he reflects the Divine likeness. —Henry Drummond

It is one thing to have seen by the Word that the world is under judgment, and another thing to count it all loss for Christ. —F.W. Grant