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Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
So far as thinking is concerned, surely original thinking is the divinest thing... We check and repress the divinity that stirs within us, to fall down and worship the divinity that is dead without us.
James A. Pike, fully Bishop James Albert Pike
When someone says “Oh, I can worship God anywhere,” the answer is, “Do you?”
Know your own true worth, and you shall not perish. Reason is your light and beacon of Truth. Reason is the source of Life. God has given you Knowledge, so that by its light you may not only worship him, but also see yourself in your weakness and strength.
God | Knowledge | Life | Life | Light | Reason | Strength | Truth | Weakness | Worship | Worth | God |
The theologian who has no joy in his work is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this science.
Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.
The deity of one's worship is a function of one's own state of mind. But it is also a product of one's culture.
I see everywhere the inevitable expression of the Infinite in our world: through it the supernatural is at the bottom of every heart. As long as the mystery of the Infinite weighs on human thought, temples will be erected for the worship of the Infinite, whether God is called Brahma, Allah, Jehovah or Jesus, and on the pavement of those temples men will be seen kneeling, prostrated, annihilated in the thought of the Infinite.
God | Heart | Inevitable | Men | Mystery | Thought | Will | World | Worship | God | Thought |
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the good ness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.
Beauty | Despair | Earth | Eternal | God | Good | Happy | Heaven | Life | Life | Man | Purpose | Purpose | Sorrow | Spirit | Will | Worship | Beauty | Learn |
Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter.
Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking.
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Superstition consists in a senseless fear of the gods, religion in the pious worship of them.
Fear | Pious | Religion | Superstition | Worship |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill.
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Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.