Seek (beneficial) knowledge, because seeking it for the sake of Allaah is a worship. And knowing it makes you more God-fearing; and… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Shani Chalisa ॥दोहा॥ Doha जय-जय श्री शनिदेव प्रभु, सुनहु विनय महराज। करहुं कृपा हे रवि तनय, राखहु जन की लाज॥ Shani Maharaj,… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Children, when we go to the temple, do not hurry to have darshan, then make some offering and return home in a… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of worship (bhakti). One worship is to attain Knowledge (Gnan). That is agnan bhakti (ignorance worship). The second… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Worship is accomplished with the life as well as with the words and attitudes of people. Changed and transformed lives testify to… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Worship works from the top down, you might say. In worship we don’t just come to show God our devotion and give… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Would a just God sentence a morally good individual to hell for never having heard of him? And for that matter, would… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 20, "Bezalel") "We were getting it: worship was not so much what we did, but what we let God do… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
God will not accept a divided heart. He must be absolute monarch. There is not room in your heart for two thrones.… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating… — J. Richard Clarke Copy Share Image
Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“The requirement to obey and acknowledge God and Jesus Christ has caused the teachings of the Christian tradition to stray from morality… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“Ohhh what precious life energy and safety one will spend and risk for a lifeless precious metal that the living attribute such… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I worship God. Religion and worship are two different things to me. Religion is by the book. I think too many people… — Eve Copy Share Image
There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Isn't it human beings who impart vitality to the image in the temple? If no one sculpts the stone, it doesn't become… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers,… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
