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The best form in which to worship God is every form.
Diversity of worship has divided the human race into seventy-two nations. From among all their dogmas, I have selected one, Divine Love.
There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
Conversation | Integrity | Intention | Man | Nothing | Reason | Truth |
The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
William Temple, fully Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
Beauty | Conscience | God | Heart | Imagination | Love | Mind | Purpose | Purpose | Truth | Will | Worship | Beauty |
William Temple, fully Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet
Ecstatic worship which is devoid of charity is for all practical purposes heathen.
Zohar or The Zohar, literally "Splendor or Radiance" NULL
Worship inspired by fear is worship, but it does not rise to the highest part of the supernal sphere. That is reserved for worship inspired by love.
Man is, properly speaking based upon hope; he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
The spiritual life is nothing else but the working of the Spirit of God within us, and therefore our own silence must be a great part of our preparation for it, and much speaking or delight in it will often no small hindrance of that good which we can only have from hearing what the Spirit and voice of God speaketh within us.
God | Good | Life | Life | Nothing | Silence | Spirit | Will | God |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. But, great as they are, to think of them greatly, to feel their passionless splendor, is greater still. And such thought makes us free men.
Death | Fate | Men | Thought | Time | Worship | Fate | Think | Thought |
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
I have no patience with the stupidity of the average teacher of grammar who wastes precious years in hammering rules into children's heads. For it is not by learning rules that we acquire the powers of speaking a language, but by daily intercourse with those accustomed to express themselves with exactness and refinement and by copious reading of the best authors.
Children | Language | Learning | Patience | Reading | Refinement | Stupidity | Teacher |