Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Every person is a Hindu who regards and owns this Bharat Bhumi, this land from the Indus to the seas, as his… — Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Copy Share Image
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad—yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it.… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Religion would certainly be more relevant to the hurting masses of humanity if people could express their hopes and dreams and pain… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the… — David F. Wells 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
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
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
Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other… — Alfred William Howitt 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
...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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
![“In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great, learned speeches and then you worship them, but actually don't do very much about girls' education generally. So I think there has been a kind of dual presence of…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2dd/amartya-sen-2518_able_in-india-in-the-great-documents-like-the_2479950.jpg)
