worldly amusements captivate the senses for the time being

This is the beautiful freedom of the sons of God, and it is worth vastly more than all the rank and distinction of blood and birth, more than all the kingdoms in the world. This is the abiding peace which, in the experience of the saints, "surpasseth all understanding. It surpasses all pleasures rising from gratification of the senses, from social gatherings, banquets and other worldly amusements; vain and deceiving as they are, they captivate the senses for the time being, but bring no lasting contentment; rather they afflict man in the depth of his soul where alone true peace can reside.

Uniformity with the Will of God

goods of this life are irksome to all spiritual men

For as St. Gregory avers, the goods of this life are irksome to all spiritual men, because they know they are a clog to their inward desires ; "our soul," he says, "can never be without some delight; for either it pleaseth itself in base and unworthy things, or in things high and worthy; and the more earnest it is in the prosecution of high delights, the more it loatheth the inferior; and the hotter it is upon the desire of the inferior, the more damnable is the cold tepidity, with which it goeth about the higher. These two loves cannot dwell in one heart: the corn of supernal charity cannot grow, where the thorns of base delight choke it."

pg. 112 of Origin and progress of religious orders, and Happiness of a religious state by Fr. Platus, S.J.

avoid the company and conversations of worldlings

Three Evils of This World

Origin and progress of religious orders, and Happiness of a religious state [the latter] being chiefly selections from a work by J. Platus By Patrick Mannock, Hieronymus Platus: ""

worldlings look upon us as fools

An introduction to the devout life By François de Sales: ""

follies and vanities of the world

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the figure of this world passeth away

This therefore I say, brethren," exclaims St. Paul, " the time is short: it remaineth .... that they who rejoice should be as they who are not rejoicing ; and they who buy, as if they were not possessing anything ; and they who use this world, as if they used it not: for the figure of this world passeth away." (1 Cor. vii. 29-31.) Yes, my brethren, the figure of this world passeth away, and with it all its cares and anxieties, all its sorrows and misfortunes : it passeth away, and with it all its praises and enjoyments, all its hopes and wishes : it passeth away, and with it all they who move therein, whether they have experienced its evils or its goods, whether they have met its frowns or its smiles. And if all that concerns us thus passes, except God, who alone is great, and eternity, which alone is lasting, what is worth our solicitude in this world, excepting that we serve God, as the Church expresses it in one of her prayers, " that we may so pass through temporal goods as not to lose those which are eternal."

Sermon on the Love of the World by Cd. Wiseman

we ought to merely enjoy spiritual things and use material things

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wretchedness of worldlings

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