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I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could...

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The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. N...

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Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

The person who prays and who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the word he desires to worship ...

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Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of know...

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Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which w...

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware ...

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The surpluses will have to be expended somehow, and trust the oligarchs to find a way. Magnificent r...

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If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseli...

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James MacDonaldChrist-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not f...

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James MacDonaldChrist-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of th...

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James MacDonaldChrist-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for ...

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James MacDonaldVertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaki...

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James MacDonaldVertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence tha...

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James MacDonaldVertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses ...

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James MacDonaldVertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of a...

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Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security...

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Look where we worship.

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to ...

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John CalvinA Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

And indeed we must seek the true rule of prayer in the word of God, that we may not rashly break thr...

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Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed,...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything els...

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God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...

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...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have d...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when ...

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John Piper (artist)Does God Desire All to Be Saved?

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases an...

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John Piper (artist)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything els...

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God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...

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...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have d...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when ...

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John Piper (artist)Does God Desire All to Be Saved?

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases an...

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John Piper (artist)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything els...

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God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...

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...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have d...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when ...

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John Piper (theologian)Does God Desire All to Be Saved?

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases an...

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John Piper (theologian)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything els...

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God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...

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...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have d...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when ...

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John Piper (theologian)Does God Desire All to Be Saved?

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases an...

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John Piper (theologian)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard...

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It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentari...

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Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the...

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Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned....

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Josef PieperLeisure: The Basis Of Culture

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is di...

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Josef PieperLeisure: The Basis Of Culture

It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the d...

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Josef PieperLeisure: The Basis Of Culture

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

He lived then before me, he lived as much as he had ever lived---a shadow insatiable of splendid app...

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We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.

What seems wrong to you is right for himWhat is poison to one is honey to someone else.Purity and im...

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Karen ArmstrongA History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and ...

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Karl BarthEvangelical Theology: An Introduction

He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not agai...

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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either,...

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A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand t...

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She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them ...

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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, fr...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Story of My Experiments With Truth

Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosoph...

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A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have m...

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Mark TwainThe Mysterious Stranger

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the g...

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We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest kille...

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N. K. JemisinThe Broken Kingdoms

Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship betwe...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or r...

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N.T. WrightFor All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural ...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate p...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are beh...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progres...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there's something at the back of it all, a creator, a great s...

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The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, t...

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The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must...

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems t...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pa...

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Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man Under Socialism

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have,...

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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the insid...

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

But some, a very come to the gods all on their own They find their way—long and far it is, sometimes...

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Thus [the altar] brings heaven into the community assembled on earth, or rather it takes the communi...

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The glory of God is the living man, but the life of man is the vision of God', says St. Irenaeus, ge...

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Pope Benedict XVIThe Spirit of the Liturgy

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

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Reinhold NiebuhrLeaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic

A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But aft...

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Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

When you committed your life to Christ, he moved into the center; but you must keep him there throug...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a will...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?