#worship

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#admire #beauty #creator #expands #i

If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh? ↗

— Lemuel K. Washburn

#god #him #need #seventh #six

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#good #hatred #i #impersonal #knows

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#creed #day #every #hard #lies

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#honor #imperative #last #primitive #senate

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#sacred #science #worship #art

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#philosophy #theology #wonder #worship #attitude

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody. ↗

— Brian Welch

#god #him #his #i #just

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship. ↗

— Billy Graham

#worship #faith