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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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women
worship
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship--be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles--is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, cliches, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
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god
idols
worship
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David Foster Wallace |
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e5ccb03
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The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.
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prayer
worry
worship
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Rick Warren |
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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
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magistrate
organized-religion
roman-empire
rome
useful
worship
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Edward Gibbon |
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240b7c0
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Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God's already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn't pay Him for what He's done for me.
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a-w-tozer
ages
done
earth
god
inspirational
life
millenniums
million
pay
prayer
the-truth
truth
worship
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A.W. Tozer |
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5aa6afc
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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.
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worship
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St. Augustine of Hippo |
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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship
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development
dream
facts
fear
feeling
free
future
gods
heart
inspirational
joy
knowledge
purpose
reform
slavery
thought
threat
weak
worship
burden
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Robert Green Ingersoll |
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ebdc978
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Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
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god
hope
inspiration
kingdom
life
love
religion
reverence
thankful
truth
verse
worship
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Anonymous |
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"If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship."
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god
religion
worship
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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3a74057
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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worship
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Oscar Wilde |
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b265160
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Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.
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deity
god
gods
savior
saviors
worship
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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babbb62
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[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.
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deification
kim-jong-il
north-korea
personal-life
privacy
sadism
worship
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Christopher Hitchens |
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a16e558
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists). The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The Only Owner of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help. Guide us to the Straight Way... The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray. (The Qur'an- Surah Al-Fatihah)
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anger
creator
grace
help
mercy
praise
religion
thanks
worship
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Anonymous |
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"It is precisely that requirement of worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"
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fanaticism
freedom-of-religion
war
worship
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.
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goddess
liar
love
lover
mistress
worship
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Jean Rhys |
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d4c5590
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"You know how it goes: at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God. Then you abandoned life and lover
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beloved
celebrate
celebrating
celebration
christ
divine
divinity
glimpse
god
goes
hafez
hafiz
in-love
jesus
kamand
kamand-kojouri
know
kojouri
life
love
love-is-love
love-movement
love-revolution
love-wins
lover
point
religion
rumi
someone
spiritual
spirituality
sufi
sufism
universe
worship
worshipping
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Kamand Kojouri |
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fa69494
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One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.
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prayer
thanksgiving
worship
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Peter Kreeft |
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0f9574d
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No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?
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god
worship
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Tamora Pierce |
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269fcb6
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The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, to whims, or to marketing strategies. It is the pleasing of God that is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God's own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him.
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worship
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R.C. Sproul |
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3238d8f
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A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact.
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worship
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Augustine of Hippo |
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If it will give you any satisfaction in the end, I still care for you. Either there is no such thing as love, or the word does not mean what I have thought it to mean on many different occasions. It is a feeling without a name, really--better to leave it at that. So take it and go away and have your fun with it. You know that we would both be at one another's throats again one day, as soon as we run out of common enemies. We had many fine reconciliations, but were they ever worth the pain that preceded them? Know that you have won and that you are the goddess I worship--for are not worship and religious awe a combination of love and hate, desire and fear?
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hate
love
reconciliation
worship
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Roger Zelazny |
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"Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus." He thought it over. Perhaps having grown up in the country, among pagans like me, helped him understand my bewilderment. "So do we, he said. "But Venus also became more...With the help of the Greeks. They call her Aphrodite...There was a great poet who praised her in Latin. Delight of men and gods, he called her, dear nurturer. Under the sliding star signs she fills the ship-laden sea and the fruitful earth with her being; through her the generations are conceived and rise up to see the sun; from her the storm clouds flee; to her the earth, the skillful maker, offers flowers. The wide levels of the sea smile at her, and all the quiet sky shines and streams with light..." It was the Venus I had prayed to, it was my prayer, though I had no such words. They filled my eyes with tears and my heart with inexpressible joy."
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mythology
poetry
prayer
venus
worship
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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3479ff2
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The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered it necessary to destroy others because they did not share the same beliefs. At worst, another man's belief might inspire amusement or contempt--the Egyptians and their animal gods, for instance. Yet those who worshipped the Bull did not try to murder those who worshipped the Snake, or to convert them by force from Snake to Bull. No evil ever entered the world quite so vividly or on such a vast scale as Christianity did.
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christianity
evils-of-hatred
heresy
holy-war
hypocrisy
priscus
worship
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Gore Vidal |
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4957b2d
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The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
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gospel
worship
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R.C. Sproul |
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fd815c5
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Later, long after my grandfather was dead, I would regret that I could never be the kind of man that he was. Though I adored him as a child and found myself attracted to the safe protectorate of his soft, uncritical maleness, I never wholly appreciated him. I did not know how to cherish sanctity, and I had no way of honoring, of giving small voice to the praise of such natural innocence, such a generous simplicity. Now I know that a part of me would like to have traveled the world as he traveled it, a jester of burning faith, a fool and a forest prince brimming with the love of God. I would like to walk his southern world, thanking God for oysters and porpoises, praising God for birdsongs and sheet lightning, and seeing God reflected in pools of creekwater and the eyes of stray cats. I would like to have talked to yard dogs and tanagers as if they were my friends and fellow travelers along the sun-tortured highways, intoxicated with a love of God, swollen with charity like a rainbow, in the thoughtless mingling of its hues, connecting two distant fields in its glorious arc. I would like to have seen the world with eyes incapable of anything but wonder, and a tongue fluent only in praise.
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praise
worship
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Pat Conroy |
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"A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't "get into" me, it is already my deepest self. The poet was speaking of Juno as if it were a person, a woman, with likes and dislikes: a jealous woman. The world is sacred, of course, it is full of gods, numina, great powers and presences. We give some of them names--Mars of the fields and the war, Vesta the fire, Ceres the grain, Mother Tellus the earth, the Penates of the storehouse. The rivers, the springs. And in the storm cloud and the light is the great power called the father god. But they aren't people. They don't love and hate, they aren't for or against. They accept the worship due them, which augments their power, through which we live."
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gods
mythology
spirituality
worship
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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b6edbaa
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Truth could never be wholly contained in words.
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transcendence
worship
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Catherine Marshall |
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51c12f4
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Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.
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laughter
worship
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Miriam Toews |
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Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold him as we should, the change is profound.
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god
joy
sanctification
worship
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John Piper |
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1201371
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The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.
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continuity
discipleship
worship
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Harold Bloom |
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2aa6693
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One of the most effective ways of changing the way people think is to change the way they worship.
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emotion
thought-life
work
worship
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Alister E. McGrath |
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9171d1e
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Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.
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philosophy
rebel
rebelliousness
sartre
worship
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Margaret Atwood |
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40fd1bc
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The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise. Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.
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worship
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Charles R. Swindoll |
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28518c6
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The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men.
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idols
worship
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Zora Neale Hurston |
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b2992e1
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...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.
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joy
simile
similes
worship
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John Piper |
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d49068d
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Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.
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heritage
legacy
literature
worship
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Harold Bloom |
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"She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them aloft. "Listen, then," Mrs. Whatsit said. The resonant voice rose and the words seemed to be all around them so that Meg felt that she could almost reach out and touch them: "Sing unto the Lord a new song, and His praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that there is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift their voice; let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory unto the Lord!"
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christ
god
love
worship
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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56a05b0
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"Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion."
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princess-diana
religion
worship
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Kate Atkinson |
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bb62454
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It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
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conventional-wisdom
idolatry
intimacy-with-god
materialism
resilience
worship
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Harold Bloom |
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05ba880
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If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.
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god
worship
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Charles R. Swindoll |
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0fdcd8e
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We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.
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spiritual-gifts
worship
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Watchman Nee |
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5843020
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The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.
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worship
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David Mamet |
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b842b9f
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"Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport"."
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emotion
intensity
transcendence
worship
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Harold Bloom |
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1ec1fc2
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"It's not that we start with beliefs and doctrine and then come up with worship practices that properly "express" these (cognitive) beliefs; rather, we begin with worship, and articulated beliefs bubble up from there. "Doctrines" are the cognitive, theoretical articulation of what we "understand" when we pray."
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prayer
worship
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James K.A. Smith |
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b3f3460
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[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.
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golden-calves
holy-beauty
jesus
worship
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Anne Lamott |
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They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
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cult
earth
great-old-ones
hidden
r-lyeh
sea
secrets
worship
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H.P. Lovecraft |
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7b8d487
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Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.
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discipleship
idolatry
vocation
work
worship
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Harold Bloom |
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2ce1bba
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Cupping her face, I reclaim her lips and gently guide her body next to mine on the bed. Rachel's tank rides up and my fingers explore the satin skin of her belly. There are so many places I long to go, so many places I crave to take her. she whispers. When I skim the waistband of her pants, her breathing hitches. Further. Damn, my entire body responds. I don't miss the way her hand fidgets with the hem of her shirt. Scared I'll spook her, I don't push her too far, but I'm all for reading body language. I place my hand over hers and her smile appears. I ask. I kiss each and every centimeter of her exposed skin as I move up her tank. I linger over the material of her bra and Rachel fists the sheet with both hands. She's so damn hot I'm about to forget slow and go for fast. But I ignore those urges and guide the material up and over her head. I don't know what the hell I did to have such a beautiful creature in my bed, but she's here and I'm going to spend tonight worshipping this gift in front of me.
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further
isaiah
kiss
rachel-young
scare
touching
worship
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Katie McGarry |
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ea8605a
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The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
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distraction
worry
worship
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Victor Hugo |
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7692778
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Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.
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work
worship
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Geraldine Brooks |
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64b8893
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But you worship money, Nate. You're part of a culture where everything is measured by money. It's a religion.
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money
religion
worship
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John Grisham |
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47b2eaa
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Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.
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intimacy-with-god
mystery-omniscience
worship
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Harold Bloom |
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d47e06b
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The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.
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servant-leadership
worship
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Watchman Nee |
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080b5e9
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Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship.
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russian
saint
soul
worship
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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30a4f19
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"When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. "Mommy, God's really showing off today!"
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openness
worship
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Beth Moore |
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97a8032
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"The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was God"s desire at Sinai - thst everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other."
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god
inspirational
serving-god
serving-others
worship
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Rob Bell |
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6d4a10e
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God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in His will, and that will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.
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god
worship
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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586447d
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We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.
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encouragement
identity
patriotism
worship
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Geraldine Brooks |
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837cb90
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In spite of his painful encounters with the world and its problems, Solomon does not recommend either pessimism or cynicism. Rather, he admonishes us to be realistic about life, accept God's gifts and enjoy them. He advises us to trust God and enjoy what we do have rather than complain about what we don't have.
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gratitude
worship
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Warren W. Wiersbe |
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27b83fc
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According to your holy book, every single Buddhist, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, follower of various minor traditions or sects, those who do not affiliate themselves with a religious tradition and the approximately 2.74 billion humans who have never had the 'privilege' of hearing the word of your Messiah will be sentenced to eternal damnation in a lake of fire--regardless of moral standings or positive worldly accomplishments. If this sounds like a fair proposition to you, then I bite my tongue--but I honestly believe that the majority of Christians do not agree with these doctrinal assertions, and instead categorize themselves as 'Christians' out of cultural familiarity or perhaps out of complete ignorance in regards to the topic.
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christian
heaven
hell
jew
joshua-project
only-way-through-jesus
worship
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David G. McAfee |
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b82c216
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David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.
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optics
servant-leadership
worship
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Geraldine Brooks |
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a4754e1
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Know that when you praise and worship God and appreciate fully all that He is, you open up a channel through which more of His love pours into your heart.
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praise
prayer
women
worship
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Stormie Omartian |
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16eabf3
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Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
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discipleship
evangelism
language
word-choice
worship
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Alister E. McGrath |
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f36e58d
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God's power and love don't fade, nor does His presence, but we cannot tap into it as fully when we don't have praise and worship toward Him in our heart
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heart
love
power
praise
presence
quotes
worship
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Stormie Omartian |
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1ffd994
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The entire pre-Columbian literature of Mexico, a vast library of tens of thousands of codices, was carefully and systematically destroyed by the priests and friars who followed in the wake of the conquistadors. In November 1530, for example, Bishop Juan de Zumarraga, who had shortly before been apointed 'Protector of the Indians' by the Spanish crown, proceeded to 'protect' his flock by burning at the stake a Mexican aristocrat, the lord of the city of Texcoco, whom he accused of having worshipped the rain god. In the city's marketplace Zumarraga 'had a pyramid formed of the documents of Aztec history, knowledge and literature, their paintings, manuscripts, and hieroglyphic writings, all of which he committed to the flames while the natives cried and prayed.' More than 30 years later, the holocaust of documents was still under way. In July 1562, in the main square of Mani (just south of modern Merida in the Yucatan), Bishop Diego de Landa burned thousands of Maya codices, story paintings, and hieroglyphs inscribed on rolled-up deer skins. He boasted of destroying countless 'idols' and 'altars,' all of which he described as 'works of the devil, designed by the evil one to delude the Indians and to prevent them from accepting Christianity.' Noting that the Maya 'used certain characters or letters, which they wrote in their books about the antiquities and their sciences' he informs us: 'We found a great number of books in these letters, and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which they took most grievously and which gave them great pain.
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christianity
codices
conquest
flames
holocaust
knowledge
savages
worship
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Graham Hancock |
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"James Smith argues that liturgies "are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body."
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worship
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James K.A. Smith |