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“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”

“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. In poetic minds and in popular enthusiasm this feeling becomes closely associated with the soil and the symbols of the country. But the secret sanctification of the soil and the symbol is the idea which they represent, and this idea the patriot worships through the name and the symbol, as a lover kisses with rapture the glove of his mistress and wears a lock of her hair upon his heart.”

Source: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891

“Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.”

Source: The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9

“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.”

Needs Able Religious Taken Mountain Worship Satisfied Sublime Adoration Cathedrals

Author:Ann Bridge

“O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.”

Men Fate Holy Mountain Worship Hills Rite Predestined Hills And Mountains

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.”

Whole Prayer Existence Meditation Tree Mountain Worship Clouds Temples

Author:Rajneesh

“The glory of God is the living man, but the life of man is the vision of God', says St. Irenaeus, getting to the heart of what happens when man meets God on the mountain in the wilderness. Ultimately, it is the very life of man, man himself as living righteously, that is the true worship of God, but life only becomes real life when it receives its form from looking toward God.”

Men Heart Real Happens Form Vision Mountain Worship Glory Real Life Wilderness Glory Of God True Worship

Book:Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy

Source: Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy

“Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade student in the United States is presented with the concept of Europeans discovering America as a "New World" with fertile soil, abundant gifts of nature, and glorious mountains and rivers. Only the most enlightened teachers will explain that this world certainly wasn't new to the millions of indigenous people who already lived here when Columbus arrived.”

Source: Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women

“So many today are worshiping in the mountains, big churches, stone and frame buildings. But Jesus teaches that salvation is not in these stone structures-not in the mountains-not in the hills, but in God.”

Bigs Today Jesus Church Teach Building Mountain Worship Stones Salvation Structure Hills

Author:William J. Seymour

“The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.”

Able Christian Evil Mountain Worship Beats Lows Weak Wave Opposition Testimony Christian Faith Incompetent Prodigious God Is Able

Author:Martin Luther

“Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view my past, dream of the future, and with unusual acuity I am allowed to experience the present moment. My strength renewed, my vision cleared, in the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn.”

Humans Moments Dream Past House Views Vision Journey Creation Pure Mountain Worship Celebrate Present Moment Unusual Summit Lofty My Past Cathedrals Reborn

Author:Anatoli Boukreev