“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy” WayTryingChildrenHas BeensMomentsFeelingsCultureGamesPrayerViewsCitiesBoysTakenRiskOffersMountainOceanWorshipPraiseTablesRefuseSpreadContinuingSummitJoiningSpoiledChorusPsalmsSpoiled ChildrenJoining In Author:N. T. Wright
“I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.” KnowsWantFeelsLongMomentsLightBeautifulEvilGoneTakenAirPlanetsHugeMountainLandscapeSmokingOver ItLight UpSomething Beautiful Author:Eddie Vedder
“Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.” NeedsAbleReligiousTakenMountainWorshipSatisfiedSublimeAdorationCathedrals Author:Ann Bridge
“Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.” MenMeanScienceUsedInterestNatureAnimalInterestingHalfTakenMountainRiversPlantCloudsProductionsIndifferentMost InterestingOther Half Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)