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“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.”

“Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.”

Individual Church Practice Taught Discipline Worship Fundamentals Believer Corporate Significance Gathering

Author:Carl Tuttle

“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)

“History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.”

Source: The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God

“We Americans are free to give our opinions and make our voices heard. We work in a free enterprise economy that, for over 200 years, has lifted countless individuals above the circumstances of their birth to achieve their God-given potential. We have been an exceptional country because, here, people are free to practice their faiths and worship God.”

People Giving Years Has Beens Country Individual Given Voice Opinion Practice Economy Heard Achieve Birth Circumstances Worship Enterprise Exceptional Worship God Free Enterprise

Author:Marco Rubio

“Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.”

Mean Individual Community Religious Liberty Worship Conscience Spheres Religious Freedom Worship God Religious Liberty Places Of Worship

Book:The Allure of Goodness and Love: Pope Francis in the United States Complete Texts

Source: The Allure of Goodness and Love: Pope Francis in the United States Complete Texts

“Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.”

Individual Enjoy Liberty Worship Conscience

Author:James Larkin

“Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.”

Men Mind Individual Felt Perfect Liberty Approach Worship Intellectual Infinite Variety Indian Unlimited Temperament Affinity Sri Lanka

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Frequently, we busily search for group service projects, which are surely needed and commendable, when quiet, personal service is also urgently needed. Sometimes the completing of an occasional group service project ironically salves our consciences when, in fact, we are constantly surrounded by a multitude of opportunities for individual service. In serving, as in true worship, we need to do some things together and some things personally. Our spiritual symmetry is our own responsibility, and balance is so important.”

“I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”

Humanity Individual Possibility Worship Highest Individuality Loathe

Author:Ayn Rand

“Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.”

Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

“...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.”

People Firsts Kind May Christian Individual Belief Left Can Do Worship Tasks Finals Missions Christian Life Corporate Resurrection Easter Lapses Collusion

Author:N. T. Wright

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.”

Has Beens States Individual Struggle Groups Civilization Worship Majority

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”

Life War Country Humanity Individual Peace Worship Patriotism Nationalism Idolatry Patriotism And Nationalism Love For Humanity

Book:The Sane Society

Source: The Sane Society

“We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.”

World Life Made Self Problem Hate Individual Nations Love Is Path Keys Ocean Worship Solutions Rising Tides Bows Pursued Altars Love Hate Retaliation Wreckage Breaking Silence

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.”

Individual Interest Worship Connected Myth Fancy Ceremony Sanctuary Worshippers No One Cares

Book:Religion of the Semites (Ppr)

Source: Religion of the Semites (Ppr)

“Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.”

Men Spiritual Form Fall Individual Strong Nations Quality Objects Worship Highest Instinct Reverence Unfortunate

Author:Lydia M. Child

“I think its good to worship as a family but its also important to worship as an individual.”

Thinking Important Individual Worship

Author:T. D. Jakes

“It is precisely that requirement of shared 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!"”

Men Humans Has Beens Suffering Individual Effort Race Mines Source Worship Universal Human Race Principal Requirements

Book:The Brothers Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.”

Whole Suffering Evil Individual Attitude Worst Students Worship Capitalism Competition Educational Preparation Exaggerated Global Economy Educational System

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“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

“Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't”

Source: The Unconscious Civilization

“We don't go to Sabbath meetings to be entertained or even solely to be instructed. We go to worship the Lord. It is an individual responsibility, and regardless of what is said from the pulpit, if one wishes to worship the Lord in spirit and truth, he may do so by attending his meetings, partaking of the sacrament, and contemplating the beauties of the gospel If the service is a failure to you, you have failed. No one can worship for you. You must do your own waiting upon the Lord.”

“Within the sound of my voice are individuals who have received the ordinances of the temple and for various reasons have not returned to the house of the Lord in quite some time. Please repent, prepare, and do whatever needs to be done so you can again worship in the temple and more fully remember and honor your sacred covenants.”

Needs Reason Done Remember House Individual Sound Voice Lord Honor Please Worship Sacred Various Temples Repent Covenant Ordinances

Author:David A. Bednar

“Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.”

Thinking Children Individual Parent Religious Common Subjects Mankind Worship Motive Divided Sincerity Gracious Sects

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted