There is a distinction between that part of the world that is divinely given, where Christians plant, reap, sow, work and live in the world by following God’s commandments. God meant it to be so, and that is not “worldliness.” Worldliness is the pride of life and the desire for what the eye sees and the longing of the ambitious soul for position and all that which the world does because of the sin in it. This includes all that is the world that overflows into a thousand things the Church has traditionally rejected.
