Worship Quotes - Page 23

• 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.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Teacher, Native American, School

  Wilma Mankiller, Gloria Steinem (2016). “Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women”, p.73, Fulcrum Publishing

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• I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Lying, Believe

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

  Donald Miller

  Letting Go, Lying, Silly

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• "Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

  Charlotte Bronte

  Girl, Wise, Caring

  "Villette".

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• Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Humanity, Treats

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• I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Curse, Willing

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

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• I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.

  John Green

  Moving, Thinking, Invisibility Cloak

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• Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, People, Evil

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion. These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Winning, Men, Faithful Servants

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Oh, Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations. Thou art Everywhere, but I worship thee here: Thou art without form, but I worship thee in these forms; Thou needest no praise, yet I offer thee these prayers and salutations. Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations." - Ash

  M.M. Kaye

  Art, Prayer, Forgiving

  M. M. Kaye (2015). “The Far Pavilions”, p.72, St. Martin's Griffin

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• For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have an unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Hair, Self, People

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• We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wall, Doors, Order

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• The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Fall, Men

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• One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To”

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• We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Rags, Flags, Belief

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1966-1967): Perennial Questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

  Sylvia Plath

  Laughter, Self, Tears

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.13, Anchor

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• Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren’t. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hair, Shopping, Worship You

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie--and yet ye love me.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Heart, Hands

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.2208, Dell

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• ...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.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, People, Church

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Science, Technology

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("The Virgin & The Dynamo"), (p. 62), 1962.

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• I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.

  Anais Nin

  Crush, Hurt, June

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• I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Prayer, Men, Religion

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• The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

  Andrew Murray

  Humility, Roots, Waiting

  Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.15, Hendrickson Publishers

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• No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

  Glen Cook

  Destiny, Insanity, Shadow

  "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.

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