Worship Quotes - Page 24

• Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Firsts, Steps, Forget

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• In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is the power of God's Spirit invading the lives of the people, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side".

  James H. Cone

  People, Community, Down And

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• One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

  Martin Buber

  Song, Voice, Soul

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• Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.

  Barbara Johnson

  Song, Sunset, Caring

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• The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Soul, Reverence

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• What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert my post, so long as I am allowed to keep it. And I ask you to join me in this same song.

  Epictetus

  Song, Men, Swans

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• The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Light, Church, Spirit

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• Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

  Khalil Gibran

  House, Soul, Dawn

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• I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hell, Homophobic, Go To Hell

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• My times of silence before God are very important to me now. I put everything else down, every word away, and I am with the Lord. When I'm quiet, life falls into perspective for me. I have a very active mind and I'm a worrier, but in those moments when I choose to put that away, I rest beside the Shepherd in still places. Why don't you give yourself a gift today? Turn off the television or the car stereo, put down the newspaper or the business plan, and in the quietness, rest for a while beside the Shepherd of your soul.

  Sheila Walsh

  Fall, Giving, Perspective

  Sheila Walsh (2001). “Gifts for Your Soul: A Book of Daily Devotions”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as a vehicle for achieving all of that. Like, if you give a tithe, He'll make you rich. Why? Are you hacking Him off or something? If you give a tithe, you get rid of ten percent of the root of all evil. You should be giving ninety percent. Cause God can handle money better than we can.

  Rich Mullins

  Jesus, Thinking, Roots

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• Let us truly be a temple-attending and temple-loving people...We should not go only for our kindred dead, but also for the personal blessings of temple worship, for the sanctity and the safety that are within those hallowed and consecrated walls. As we attend the temple, we learn more richly and deeply the purpose of life and the significance of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us make the temple, together with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Jesus, Wall, Sacrifice

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• We don't go to Sabbath meetings to be entertained or even solely
  to be instructed. We go to worship the Lord. It is an individual
  responsibility, and regardless of what is said from the pulpit, if one
  wishes to worship the Lord in spirit and truth, he may do so by
  attending his meetings, partaking of the sacrament, and
  contemplating the beauties of the gospel If the service is a
  failure to you, you have failed. No one can worship for you. You
  must do your own waiting upon the Lord.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Responsibility, Waiting, Wish

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• The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Civilization, Lasts

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.260, Routledge

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• The Christian Sunday should be a festival, gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship and then spending the day in a way which most truly promotes joy and happiness and refreshment for oneself and for other people.

  Olive Wyon

  Happiness, Christian, Sunday

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• The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.

  Kabir

  Giving, Stones, Speak

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• I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

  Jimmy Page

  Writing, House, Magic

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• Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism is… precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Atheism, Belief

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• Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.

  Amiri Baraka

  Atheist, Talking, People

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• I do not worship matter, I worship the God of matter, who became matter for my sake and deigned to inhabit matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. I will not cease from honoring that matter which works for my salvation. I venerate it, though not as God.

  John of Damascus

  Matter, Sake, Salvation

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• To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Religion, Church

  Samuel Johnson (1819). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.239

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• Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

  Laozi

  Time, Law, Listening

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• I mean there are a bunch of people who I’ve heard worship Adolf Hitler who don’t like me because I don’t think Jews have 14 inch fangs and drink blood and sneak around in bushes.

  Alex Jones

  Mean, Thinking, Blood

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• Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Children, Intelligent

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.976, Library of Alexandria

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• We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Religious, Islamic, Dhikr

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