Bible Encyclopedia: Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: Poverty

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Happiness Deriving from Perfect Uniformity.
... from social gatherings, banquets and other worldly amusements; vain and ... who tasted
to satiety all the pleasures of the ... In his poverty he was richer than the ...
/.../de liguori/uniformity with gods will/3 happiness deriving from perfect.htm

To Monna Colomba in Lucca
... people to those same vanities and amusements that we ... salvation, from vain diversions
and worldly weddings"for ... in itself the gaieties and pleasures of the ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/to monna colomba in lucca.htm

Dancing.
... in a social way as these innocent amusements may be. ... fellowship is one of the sweetest
pleasures of life ... makes it the chiefest attraction of worldly-minded and ...
/.../judy/questionable amusements and worthy substitutes/iv dancing.htm

An Earnest Warning About Lukewarmness
... There are certain amusements which of course a Christian ... which enables them to enjoy
the pleasures of sin ... Contentment as to worldly goods makes men rich, but ...
/.../spurgeons sermons volume 20 1874/an earnest warning about lukewarmness.htm

Index.
... Amusements, vii.1, Rel. ... Loyalty, worldly, v.9 ... xxviii.20; harshly judged by her directors,
xxviii.23; would not exchange her visions for all the pleasures of the ...
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Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... and heaviness merely on account of some worldly trouble or ... and vanity; all the idle
diversions and amusements of the world; all the pleasures which "perish ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 21 upon our lords.htm

The Man after God's Own Heart
... It has pleasures, and gaiety, and excitement; but there is no ... and worldly society,
and worldly books, and worldly lusts ... You see what amusements the ideal man has ...
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The New-Birth
... the cover of flesh and blood, often lulled asleep by worldly light and amusements,
yet such as ... and to be delivered from the power of its pleasures over us ...
/.../law/the grounds and reasons of christian regeneration/the new-birth.htm

Relation 1. Sent to St. Peter of Alcantara in 1560 from the ...
... Amusements, of which I used to be fond, and worldly things, are ... way, but she afterwards
abides in peace and joy; so much so, that all the pleasures of earth ...
/.../teresa/the life of st teresa of jesus/relation 1 sent to st.htm

On Infants' Early Deaths.
... produce, enriched, as thy rejection of worldly abundance has ... plague of ignorance,
through the pleasures he has ... his household; and in all those amusements to be ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/on infants early deaths.htm

Nave's Topical Index

Proverbs 21:17
He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
Nave's Topical Index

Subtopics

Amuse

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures are Transitory

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: A Characteristic of the Wicked

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: A Proof of Spiritual Death

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: Abstinence From, Seems Strange to the Wicked

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: An Abuse of Riches

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: Belong to the Works of the Flesh

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: Choke the Word of God in the Heart

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures: Denounced by God