Best worship & spirituality Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.”

Self Spirituality Results Violence Worship Extremes Narcissism Loathing Self Loathing

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else.”

Spiritual Spirituality Worship Enlightenment Distinction Worship You

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Worship demands the far distances of God; it protests against the little, the near, the material. It must love but it must look up. It cannot live without the note of spirituality and universality, if not mystery. The ascension, the passing of Christ within the veil, answers this need. So does a full-robed Christianity add to definiteness of knowledge the outreach of imagination and home.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.”

Source: No Signposts in the Sea

“The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.”

Spirituality Impossible Worship Impulse

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.”

Love Littles Soul Spirituality Week Worship Garden Plant Corners My Soul Reverence Gardening

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.”

People Needs Believe Humans Spirituality Church Projects Worship Busy Human Needs Insensitive Contradicting

Book:The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey

Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey

“You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through the instrument of worship, when you really connect with the invisible, almighty God.”

Home Spirituality Church Worship Instruments Invisible Almighty Almighty God Worship You Church Service

Author:T. D. Jakes

“The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.”

People Facts Spiritual Spirituality Emotion Worship Negative Fantastic Negative Emotions

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.”

Want Needs Joy Spirituality Worship Definitions Obedience Deities Compliance Your Freedom

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in man, not oneness. Religion means creating in man an organic unity; it has nothing to do with God, it has something to do with you. It has nothing to do with worship, it has something to do with a transformation of your own consciousness.”

Men Mean Has Beens Together Spirituality Belief Consciousness Creating Worship Opposites Transformation Unity Oneness Manifestation Splits Priesthood Coming Together

Author:Rajneesh

“O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.”

Ifs Wisdom Spiritual Religion Spirituality Hell Worship Sake Thee Paradise Everlasting

Author:Rabia Basri

“Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.”

Way Wells Persons Spirituality Mystery Share Discipline Worship Catholic Collectives

Author:Paulo Coelho

“At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.”

Spiritual Values Faith Spirituality Cost Worship Spiritual Values

Book:Ways of Escape

Source: Ways of Escape

“BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.”

Kind Spiritual Religion Spirituality Religious Worship Determined Ceremony Baths Mystic Efficacy

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

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