1.   But Jacob was promised neither worldly success nor material security, for the ladder was only the part of the dream.

2.   It is an excellent debut, crisply written and full of dark observations on the fragility of worldly success.

3.   Our Church often measures things in terms of worldly success, and not in terms of the humility of weakness and failure.

4.   Book offers a fragrant, funny, precise picture of a writer whose considerable worldly success never tempted him into untoward displays of optimism.

5.   But Congdon was never overly concerned with worldly success.

6.   For his own worldly success illustrates the possibilities that a great public university can open up for a boy or girl of modest means.

7.   Is the worldly success of the author, or her heroine, the point of writing?

8.   Pushed to achieve the kind of worldly success that had eluded her parents, the young Joyce became a willfully ambitious child, desperate to win their approval.

9.   Well-educated and well-employed, Valerie McDivitt was on her way to the worldly success she sought.

10.   We must do more than long for worldly success.