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“Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.”

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Book:The New Complete Works of Josephus

Source: The New Complete Works of Josephus

“It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.”

Source: The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)

“As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.”

World Doe Spirit Force Social Atheism Worship Models Appeals Permanent Tension Dependent Distraction Rhetoric Sensibility Organize Respectable Piety Variables Revitalization

Author:C. Wright Mills

“The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.”

Spirit Force Wish Moral Worship Relation Attributes Inward Worship God

Author:African Spir

“The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.”

Way America Belief Force Worship Superstitions Puritan

Book:You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

“I want everybody to worship the God of love instead of worshipping the God of hate and torture. But in the meantime we don't want to force Jesus Christ on anybody and look that we are trying to force our beliefs onto other.”

Want Trying Looks Hate Jesus Belief Force Christ Worship Jesus Christ Torture

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.”

Believe Has Beens Seems Humanity Force Practice Hero Worship Deserve Uplifting Seats Condemnation Strengthening Hero Worship

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.”

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“The Kingdom suffers violence and the violent take "IT" by force! I believe the Lord is requiring our worship to become more violent. Kingdoms are clashing. We, a people of God, will take the earth by forceful worship. Violent worship overcomes violence in the natural, because the atmosphere around us changes.”

People Believe Earth Suffering Force I Believe Natural Lord Violence Worship Overcoming Violent Gods Will Kingdoms Atmosphere

Author:Chuck Pierce

“When we moved to Florida we experienced it on a communal level, in a more structured religious setting, with temples and different worships. That sense of community is very much interconnected with music for us, and thinking of music as this living organism that offers a space of mystical participation with forces outside yourself.”

Thinking Different Force Community Religious Space Levels Offers Worship Moved Setting Settings Temples Florida Organisms Participation Mystical Interconnected Living Organisms

Author:Taraka Larson

“[The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people to worship in a particular matter and remain neutral on what those views and beliefs were.”

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Author:John Cornyn

“It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.”

Men Kind Enough Might Force Enemy Modern Personality Worship Weak Extremes Intellect Admire Oppression Coward Allegiance Meanness Morbidity Great Personality

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp”

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Book:Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition

Source: Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition

“I always thought it would be a simple matter to lie wi' a woman, he said softly. And yet... I want to fall on my face at your feet and worship you"-he dropped the towel and reached out, taking me by the shoulders-"and still I want to force ye to your knees before me, and hold ye there wi' me hands tangled in your hair, and your mouth at my service...and I want both things at the same time, Sassenach.”

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.”

“I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity."”

People Littles Together Spiritual Force Social Realizing Loses Church Levels Class Danger Becoming Worship Unity Clubs Doctrine Oneness Coming Together Veneer Levels Of Life

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum. It becomes a search for ecstasy - no matter what kind achieved through destruction...The worshipful integraton of nature in the person is inverted in a hellish imprisonment of the individual in nature."”

Kind Persons Matter Spiritual Individual Force Elements Worship Destruction No Matter What Ecstasy Momentum Imprisonment Inverted

Author:Olivier Clement