Quotes About Worship

This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.

There are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don't know, what God they serve.

It's *AS IF* there is a powerful figure in the sky, who sees all, and is judging you. Giving up something you value seems to make him happy--and you want to make him happy, because all hell breaks loose if you don't. So, practice sacrificing, and sharing, until you become expert at it, and things will go well for you.

unchaperoned, and left to our own untutored judgment, we are quick to aim low and worship qualities that are beneath us

The single axioms of the ideologically possessed are gods, served blindly by their proselytizers.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. "Temple" means... that a particular piece of ground is specially reserved, and marked off from the remainder of the land which is used either for agriculture or habitation... Similarly in divine worship a certain definite space of time is set aside from working hours and days... and like the space allotted to the temple, is not used, is withdrawn from all merely utilitarian ends.

Leisure cannot be achieved at all when it is sought as a means to an end, even though that end be "the salvation of Western civilization". Celebration of God in worship cannot be done unless it is done for its own sake. That most sublime form of affirmation of the world as a whole is the fountainhead of leisure.

They fall into blind darkness who worship the Unmanifested and they fall into greater darkness who worship the manifested.

Methodist, madam,' said he, 'pray what is that?' She replied, 'Why, the Methodists are a people that do nothing but pray: they are praying all day and all night.

Rather than Jethro's conversion to Yahwism, therefore, [in Exod. 18] we are witnessing 'the first incorporation of the Israelite leaders into the worship of Yahweh'. (p. 135) (from 'The Midianite-Kenite Hypothesis Revisited and the Origins of Judah', JSOT 33.2 (2008): 131-153)

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Qu'on rie des idées religieuses, ou qu'on les vénère, n'importe : elles ne forment pas moins, vraies ou fausses, la base unique de toutes les institutions durables.

Es preciso que exista algo sagrado

Many people think that the church simply took over a pagan holiday, but that is not so. As Sextus Julius Africanus had shown, there were good reasons for celebrating the feast of Christ's birth on December 25, and sun and light symbolism played a very great role in Christian worship.

We do not "adore bread" (adoratio panis, d/oroAarpeta), because, according to Catholic teaching, the substance of bread is no longer present in the Holy Eucharist and we give no separate adoration to its acci dents. The object of our adoration is the totum sacra-mentale. 1

He often referred to Rush's three members—Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, and Geddy Lee—as "the Holy Trinity" or "the Gods of the North.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

Man makes holy what he believes.