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“There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.”

Thinking Want Kind Form Church Directors Worship Mere Determine Doctrine Administration Priests

Author:Arthur Middleton

“Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.”

“The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.”

Men Wealth He Man Worship Mere Avarice Snob

Book:Thackeray: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: Thackeray: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people today are now adding ancient elements to their worship. . . . This recovery of ancient practices is not the mere restoration of ritual but a deep, profound, and passionate engagement with truth—truth that forms and shapes the spiritual life into a Christlikeness that issues forth in the call to a godly and holy life and into a deep commitment to justice and to the needs of the poor.”

“... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.”

Ifs Life Made Action Life Is Religion Growth Deals Teaching Development Ought Worship Mere Instinct Linked Gratification Credo

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.”

Men Two Three Happened Century Masters Worship Mere Antiquity

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.”

Reading Worship Mere Scripture Sabbath Abstention

Author:Joseph Hertz

“The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.”

Causes Hero Worship Mere Wheels Spinning Hero Worship

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.”

Way Heart Done Duty Worship Mere Affection Arise Spontaneous Reflecting Radiance Reflecting Back

Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and worshipping him is a still greater danger... The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of scripture is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissable.”

Thinking Believe Stills Two Certain Evil Greater Danger Calling Conflict Goodness Worship Ultimate Regard Mere Scripture Doctrine Terrified Flattery Goodness Of God Ultimate Questions

Author:C. S. Lewis

“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.”

Ifs May Persons Would Be Remember Saws Serious One Day Creatures Worship Mere Mortals Goddess Tempted Serious Things Circumspection Gods And Goddesses Mere Mortals

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.”

Worship Music Is Dancing Dance Mere Burden Noise Without Love Chores

Author:Rumi

“Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations - should not absorb or engross the thoughts of those who worship at its shrine, but should be kept in the background, and restrained within its proper province. As a mere game, a relaxation from the severe pursuits of life, it is deserving of high commendation.”

Should Has Beens Games Serious Worship Mere Chess Pursuit Backgrounds Severe Relaxation Deserving Recreation Provinces Shrines Commendation

Author:Paul Morphy

“Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship? Do you love truth for truth's sake; and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others.”

Thinking Way Persons Body Names Opinion Mankind Ought Worship Mere Sake Communicate Profession Goods Endeavor Sincerely Truth Love

Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader

“I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish. ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.”

People Humans Use Spirit Race Hero Worship Mere Rational Human Race Civilized Barbarism Fetish Philosophic Hero Worship

Book:Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest

Source: Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest

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