Definition of "heavenly-mindedness" [heavenly-mindedness]

• The state or quality of being heavenly-minded. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "To be much in provoking others to repentance and heavenly-mindedness may do much to excite them in ourselves."
• "Some duties of obedience there are which the world neither doth nor can discern in believers; such are their faith, inward holiness, purity of heart, heavenly-mindedness, sincere mortification of indwelling sin; some whose performance ought to be hid from them, as personal prayer and alms,"
• "Besetting sins, though apparently opposite ones, sad stumbling-blocks in the way of the cross, are unrestrained activity of thought and indolence: the former proceeds from earthly-mindedness; and the latter as a sure consequence from the want of heavenly-mindedness."