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The best way of worshiping God is in allaying the distress of the times and improving the condition of mankind. - Abulfazzi The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. - Hosea Ballou It is the Mass the matters. - Augustine Birrell, What, Then, Did Happen at the Reformation?, published in "Nineteenth Century", Apr., 1896, answered, July, 1896 It is for the sake of man, not of God, that worship and prayers are required; not that God may be rendered more glorious, but that man may be made better,--that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of his dependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions in which his highest improvement consists. - Hugh Blair Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised? - William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn (l. 16) I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald He wakes a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God!" he says, with solemn air. - Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night (st. 12) Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec,. IV, memb. 1, subsec. 5) The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Manfred (act III, sc. 4) Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Goethe's Works It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. - Calvin Coolidge And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, in an address I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one for t'other. Save me and I'll give you a taper or go on a pilgrimage. - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus, The Shipwreck What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. - Reginald Heber, From Greenland's Icy Mountains--Missionary Hymn Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,-- Freedom to worship God. - Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans, The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers Remember that God will not be mocked; that it is the heart of the worshiper which He regards. We are never safe till we love Him with our whole heart whom we pretend to worship. - Bishop Joseph Henshaw As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire. - Donald Marquis (Donald Robert Perry Marquis) ("Don Marquis"), The God-Maker, Man For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed. - Donald Marquis (Donald Robert Perry Marquis) ("Don Marquis"), The God-Maker, Man Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not. - John Milton, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator? - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 680) Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Apology for Raimond Sebond, quoting Apollo So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel: Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell, Written in blood--and Bigotry may swell The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell! - Edward Moore, Lalla Rookh--Veiled Prophet of Khorassan Together kneeling, night and day, Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine, And I--at any God's for thine. - Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh--Fire Worshippers (fourth division, l. 309) Lord, let us to thy gates repair To hear the gladdening sound, That we may find salvation there, While yet it may be found. There let us joy and comfort reap; There teach us how to pray, For grace to choose, and strength to keep The strait, the narrow way. And so increase our love for Thee, That all our future days May one continued Sabbath be Of gratitude and praise. - William Samways Oke Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols. - Theodore Parker, Critical and Miscellaneous Writings (Essay I, A Lesson for the Day) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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