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Quotes About Worship

Honor your own Self. Meditate on your own Self. Worship your own Self. Kneel to your own Self. Understand your own Self. Your God dwells within you as you.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
If Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity, and we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters. Conversely, if He is God, those who say He was merely a good man, or even the best of men, are blasphemers. More serious still, if He is not God, then He is a blasphemer in the fullest sense of the word. If He is not God, He is not even good.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
She is more beautiful than I have words for. And last night, I was blessed beyond measure to serve her.
~ J.R. Ward
he wanted to prostrate at newton's alter and weep with gratitude for the blessing that made all things fall to the goddamn ground
~ J.R. Ward
Did they know that he stood on the bow every morning, noon, and night for an hour...this prayer of thanks to a God more a God than any to be found in book-bound, altar-bound Religion?
~ Jack Kerouac
When we make ourselves high priests of art we deceive ourselves again, art is like a genie. It is more powerful than ourselves, but only by virtue of ourselves does it exist and create. Like a genie it has no will of its own, and is, even somewhat stupid; but by our will it moves to build our gleaming palaces and provide a mistress for the palace, which is most important. The high priest is a cultist, who worships the genie that someone else has invoked.
~ Jack Kerouac
Get a job! Go to work! Poor, stupid slaves, he thought. Small wonder the world belonged to the strong. The slaves were obsessed by their own slavery. A job was to them a golden fetich before which they fell down and worshipped.
~ Jack London
When fans come to me, and they say, 'You're my favorite singer in rock music,' and I go, 'What about Steven Tyler?' 'No, I like you better.' 'What about Robert Plant?' 'I like you better.' That's kind of weird to me, because I'm like, 'No, dude - Steven Tyler and Robert Plant are gods.'
~ John Corabi
The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
~ Mason Cooley
...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.
~ David Jones, In Parenthesis
Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord
~ Abdul-Qadir Gilani
Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.
~ Ibn Hazm
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)
~ Hakim
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
~ Saadi
Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.
~ John Stott
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Raja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Internal and external purification, contentment, mortification, study, and worship of God are the Niyamas.
~ Swami Vivekananda
He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Râja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I remember, as a boy, hearing a Christian missionary preach to crowd in India. Among other sweet things he was telling them was, that if he gave a blow to their idol with his stick. what could it do? One of his hearers sharply answered, "If I abuse your God, what can He do?" "You would be punished," said the preacher, "when you die." "So my idol will punish you when you die," retorted the Hindu.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
~ T. S. Eliot
I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.
~ T.D. Jakes