Best worship & objects Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.”

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Author:Aaron Siskind

“The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.”

Men Character Perfect Views Objects Worship Clothes Standards Perfection Belonging Endeavor Attributes

Book:The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence

Source: The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence

“Phony gurus make themselves objects of adoration and worship. Real spiritual teachers aren't interested in adoration and worship. They like respect only because they realize respect will help the student.”

Real Helping Spiritual Realizing Teacher Objects Students Worship Enlightened Guru Adoration Phony Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of Christ ended with his life , and left us instead but the Christian religion.”

Men Christian Left Christ Example Objects Worship Devotion

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.”

Eye Faces Failing Objects Creatures Worship Originals Visible Unseen Pursued

Author:Ibn Arabi

“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.”

“A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.”

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Book:Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

Source: Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

“We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies.”

Art Government Next Literature Church Study Mankind Objects Duty Fine Worship Creator Devoted Extensions Fine Arts True Worship

Author:Pope Leo X

“God, the object of our worship, also becomes the inspiration of that worship. He has imparted His own Spirit into our hearts to energize that worship. All that is due Him comes from Him.”

Heart Inspiration Spirit Objects Worship Dues

Author:Judson Cornwall

“Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul.”

Heart Soul Light Spiritual Sin Grace Objects Worship Raised Operations Flames Suitable Worship God Spiritual Light

Book:The Existence and Attributes of God

Source: The Existence and Attributes of God

“Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.”

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding

“The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.”

Wells Religion Religious Support Sun Mankind Objects Moon Worship Well Being Utility Inanimate Objects Sceptic

Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.”

Self Understanding My Own Education Objects Worship Vanity Inclination

Book:The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes

Source: The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes

“The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.”

Lying Objects Perception Worship Compass

Author:Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

“God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.”

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Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus, Minerva, Mars, and the rest-as allegories. But, forgetting that they once carried as much sanctity as our saints and divinities, we refrain from applying the same reasoning to our own objects of worship.”

God Used Religious Forget Figures Objects Worship Rivers Saint Chiefs Greek Fancy Reasoning Divinity Mars Refrain Sanctity Venus Allegory Pantheon Minerva

Author:Julian Huxley

“The Blessed Sacrament is the first and supreme object of our worship. We must preserve in the depths of our hearts a constant and uninterrupted profound adoration of this precious pledge of Divine Love.”

Firsts Heart Objects Divine Worship Blessed Constant Profound Depth Supreme Preserves Sacraments Divine Love Adoration Pledge Eucharist Blessed Sacrament

Author:Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

“David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his worship - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Though our affections for God may wax and wane, His character is unchanging! We even see David speaking to his own soul, demanding of it, "Bless the Lord!"”

May Soul Character Spirit Father Quality Lord Objects Son Holy Worship Affection Holy Spirit Bless Father Son Unchanging Volition

Author:Laura Story

“We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing people to the altar and saying, "Look at those beautiful stones we trimmed!" We merely need to accept the work that God has done for us in Christ. The object of His restrictions is to help us see how wonderful He is and to spend the rest of our lives rendering true worship to Him.”

People Ifs Needs Looks Done Helping Beautiful Christ Accepting Our Lives Wonderful Objects Worship Stones Dare Ruins End Times Spend Time Restriction Altars Rendering True Worship

Author:Max Anders

“What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.”

Objects Worship

Author:Francis Chan

“It's not the elements of our worship that are awesome. It's the object of our worship Who is awesome.”

Objects Elements Worship

Author:Louie Giglio

“May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.”

Believe May Soul Suffering I Believe Born Poor Race Special Objects Worship Misery Species I Believe In Miserable Wicked Again And Again Born Again

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.”

“So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak out and turn that person into either an object of worship or, some people freak out and want to kill that person. I think it's because they know what's true but they don't want to know, they don't want to face up to what that actually means. So they're going to kill the messenger and hope that by doing so they'll destroy the message so they can go back to living their ordinary life again.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Mean Persons Doe Faces Turns Effort Objects Worship Messages Ordinary Freak Messengers Ordinary Life

Author:Brad Warner

“It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.”

Character Wonder Objects Worship Awe Admiration

Author:N. T. Wright

“Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are being loving when actually they are being possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs... How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality to human relationships! This is worship of a false god. Instead of bringing life, it brings death.”

“It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.”

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Author:R. C. Sproul

“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.”

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Author:Lydia M. Child

“Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.”

Form Culture Understanding Atheism Objects Essentials Approach Worship Intellectual Positive Atheism Tendencies Idolatry

Book:Anatomy of Criticism

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship.”

Ifs Passion Community Religious Objects Worship Believer Scholar Theologian Gladness Attractiveness

Book:A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World

Source: A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World

“We can expect God to provide everything necessary to make worship possible. We children of God must ever be dependent upon God, for we have no resources of our own. We are as impoverished in worship times as a baby unable to provide its own bottle at feeding time. God, the object of our worship, also becomes the inspiration of that worship. He has imparted His own Spirit into our hearts to energize that worship. All that is due Him comes from Him. His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me.”

Heart Children Persons Inspiration Spirit Objects Baby Honor Worship Resources Dues Glorious Dependent Admiration Bottles Feeding Evoke Child Of God Impart

Author:Judson Cornwall

“The thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object Jesus, God and man, really present in the most holy Eucharist. The spirit of sacrifice, of humiliation, of scorn for self in the eyes of men, will be illuminated, supported and strengthened by the constant thought of Jesus, humiliated and despised in the Blessed Sacrament”

Source: Journal of a Soul

“In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those forced to live in substandard housing are thought to be the authors of substandard lives. Those who do not finish high school or cannot afford to go to college are considered deficient or inept.”

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Author:Michael Parenti

“There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.”

Kind Pleasure Objects Worship Sacrilege

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.”

Long Church Prayer Principles Objects Worship Ceremony

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on the rise of Christianity. . . . Although they do not inquire into the future, and either forget or do not know the past, yet defame present times as most unusually beset, as it were, by evils because there is belief in Christ and worship of God, and increasingly less worship of idols.”

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Author:Orosius

“Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."”

Looks Beauty Stage Objects Worship Reverence Gail

Author:Ayn Rand

“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.”

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