Quotes About Worship

Brothers and sisters, praise itself is an act of faith. Why? When we're able to praise God before we see the answers to our prayers, we're saying, Lord, I trust You to work this out, according to Your purpose. I'm going to thank You now for what You're going to do.

Our deepest feelings are precisely those we are least able to express, and even in the act of adoration, silence is our highest praise.

Man has so long worshipped the images of his own making that at first he finds this revelation blasphemous, but the day man discovers and accepts this principle as the basis of his life, that day man slays his belief in a God apart from himself.

All of me knelt down. All of me bowed. Inside the chapel of myself, all my candles lit.

Il piacere è una religione e il corpo è il suo tempio.

a God of ten-year-old boys, a God of playground bullies, a God of rapists, of gangs, of pimps. They worship – despite rhetoric about justice and compassion – a God who sides with the strong against the weak, a God who cheers for privilege and punishes egalitarianism. They worship a God who is a male and who gangs up with other males against women. They worship a thug.

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships. Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.

The particular creature we love is never God's rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

Es gibt keine universal gültigen Deutungen. Eine religiöse Deutung ist grotesk in einem profanen Kontext, so wie eine profane Deutung grotesk ist in einem religiösen Kontext. Dort sind nur wissenschaftliche Kategorien brauchbar; hier ist alles Zeichen, Symbol, Sakrament. Der Regen ist für den, der anbetet, göttlicher Segen, der auf das Wunder des Weizens fällt.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Worship and meditate on your consciousness, the same consciousness which is in all living beings, indicated by the five sense organs and three gunas which supports your living and presence. Continue doing your activities; they will carry on spontaneously, but give attention to the knowledge that you are. Hold your beingness. Self-knowledge will tell you everything you need to know.

He has commanded us to pray to Him for our sake. G-d does not need our prayer; He can do without our prayers, but we cannot do without our prayers.

The signs were everywhere, it seemed. What it meant depended on which god you worshipped. The God of Denial, the God of Revenge, the God of Beauty, Prosperity, Youth. All shared the same name—God will lift you up. God will strike you down!—but it wasn't possible that White Supremacist Jesus and Civil Rights Jesus were the same person, that splash a pregnant woman with blood Jesus and turn the other cheek Jesus were even the same species of deity.

We had returned to the age of polytheism without realizing it. Which God we worshipped depended on which tribe we belonged to, which wish we prayed granted. Even Reason had become a God to millions over the last century—an omnipotent being of pure science, worshipped by lettered liberals in the organic produce aisles of their local Whole Foods. And Whole Foods Jesus knows there's no such thing as ghosts. Firm in

This tendency, greatly amplified, characterizes many of the more uncompromising biophilic thinkers who, in trying to construe love of nature as an ethical, rather than merely an esthetic, imperative, become ensnared in the constraints of their own subjectivity.21 These they mistake for sacred law. The most damning thing about this brand of nature worship is that it leads to outright contempt for scientific rationality.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

As one half of our nature seeks to create heroes to worship, the other must ceaselessly attempt to cast them down and discover evidence of feet-of-clay, in order to label them as mere lucky fellows, or as villains-were-the-facts-but-known, and the eminent and great are ground between the millstones of envy, and reduced again to common size.

?]ntihar edenlere tören yap?lmaz, böyle intikamc? Tanr?'ya tap?lmaz.

Worship is no good without action. With action, it's only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, and eases your mind

Earthseed deals with ongoing reality, not with supernatural authority figures. Worship is no good without action. With action, it's only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, eases your mind.

Do not worship God Inexorable God Neither needs nor wants Your worship. Instead, Acknowledge and attend God, Learn from God, With forethought and intelligence, Imagination and industry, Shape God. When you must, Yield to God. Adapt and endure.

Worship is no good without action. With action, it's only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, eases your mind.

[The Indian] sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.