#worship

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#beloved #dearer #everything #god #life

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God. ↗

— John Piper

#worship #beauty

These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies.” “Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic. ↗

— Richard K. Morgan

#men

You haven’t prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art ↗

— LaMar Boschman

#worship #worship-leading #art

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#religion #skepticism #worship #age

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship. ↗

— George Pataki

#country #freedom #freedom of speech #israel #respects

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#based #basic #been #build #center

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#being #her #him #loved #lover

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#comfortable #i #jew #worshipping

Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun. ↗

— Edmund Blunden

#more #play #summer #sun #than