“The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.” FeelsImportantRealSelfIndividualSocietyHigherWorshipEmpathyOppositesBoundariesTendenciesPsychologicalPrimariesUrgesMechanismEntityProjectionIdentificationImportant QuestionsCommunes Author:Arthur Koestler
“So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God - forms or symbols, names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere, if he really wants to reach the truth, he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing.” IfsMenWantFormFightingThreeNamesHigherWorshipDevotionSymbolsPrimariesPlanesSincere Author:Swami Vivekananda
“Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust.” DreamDesireStarsHigherAmbitionWorshipDignityMadnessDustHillsGoddessSoarLeaving MeMistressWeepingMy AmbitionAzure Book:Imogen: And Other Poems Source: Imogen: And Other Poems
“Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.)” CarTheorySourceHigherMoralityWorshipPerfectionAbsolutesSupremeDevoted Author:African Spir
“If you ever meet a higher being, do not worship it; only try to be its friend! Worship is primitiveness and no higher and developed being likes worshipping!” IfsTryingHigherWorshipLikes Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.” HumansDoeHuman BeingsSecretChristianityMysteryHigherEqualWorshipStandingMuhammadMessengers Author:Leo Tolstoy
“We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)” HumansSoulBodyHuman BeingsHigherDrugWorshipExpectationsHundredDoctorsSuicideAddictionRateAverageEightIntenseVulnerableGoodsOfferingWoundedAnguishWorldlyDeitiesPercentagesHealerDrug Addiction Book:Doctors Source: Doctors
“There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real "you." All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. “God created man after His own image." That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it !” MenLittlesIdeasRealDreamFallUniverseFatherHeavenFeetHigherCreatingWorshipReflectionFalling DownThere Is No GodGod ImageReal YouFather In HeavenDualismWrong Man Author:Swami Vivekananda
“Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act of truly loving God. Believe in this brilliant Being, this magnificent "higher power," who not only created us but nurtures us with care and intelligence beyond our imagination, and obviously we are called to worship Him.” BelieveCareImaginationReligiousPleasureDutyHigherWorshipBrilliantParadoxMagnificentNurtureLoving GodHigher PowerGreatest PleasuresReligious Life Author:M. Scott Peck
“Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.” MenGivingHumansDifferentWould BeFormJesusChristHe ManHigherGiving UpWorshipJesus ChristAbsolutesManifestationNonsenseWorship GodWorship Jesus Book:Complete Works Source: Complete Works
“If performed in the right spirit, there is no higher worship than the unpurchased service to another soul of whatever faith, belief, or social stratum. The Savior of the world said it simply, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40).” IfsWorldSaidSoulDoneSpiritBeliefSocialHigherWorshipCharitySaviorBrethren Author:James E. Faust
“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.” ReligionBeliefHigherDiseaseWorshipAdultsRateCreatorAbortionMortalityPregnancyJuvenileHomicideTeen Pregnancy Author:Gregory S. Paul
“The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point.” WorldShouldShowsMightPowerfulWillingHigherWorshipStandardsGoldAnd LoveOvercomingSaintNeighborGod LovePlanesAcknowledgeLatterSilverProvidencePower Of GodLatter DaysLatter Day Saints Author:Lorenzo Snow
“The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.” MenWorldSelfHomeHeavenRoomsBuildingSonHigherWorshipClimbsWord Of GodIdolsGoddessTowersDominionSelf SufficiencySufficiencyContingency Book:The works ... Source: The works ...
“I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher.” MindHeartSoulCharacterBodyMoralFashionObjectsHigherMy HeartWorshipStandardsSellsShoesLegsMy SoulDefinedServantPairsDisplaySubmitConsumptionSubmissionServant Of GodMoral Character Author:Yasmin Mogahed