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The worship of God is not a rule of
safety-- it is an adventure of the spirit,
a flight after the unattainable.

Alfred North Whitehead

Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God,
must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister,
his or her neighbor.  To treat any of these as if he were less
than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.

Desmond Tutu
   

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things.
May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life,
that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

Henry Ward Beecher
   

Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy,
little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories
over favorite temptations--these are the silent threads of gold which,
when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves.

Frederic William Farrar
  
  

For the Christian who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

Honore de Balzac
  

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery
is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

Robert Louis Stevenson
   

In the act of worship itself,
the experience of liberation
becomes a constituent
of the community's being . . .
It is the power of God's
Spirit invading the lives
of the people, "building
them up where they are
torn down and propping
them up on every leaning side."

James H. Cone

  

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life.
One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness,
and the table becomes an altar.  One works in holiness,
and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools.
One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs,
which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

Martin Buber
  

When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy,
then from all the stones, and all growing things,
and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you,
and then they are purified and become a holy fire in you.

Hasidic saying
  

  
My church helps me to keep a sky in my life and to look up, to keep my hand in God's
and hold on to Him, to see the eternal values above the material, to lift life above self
to service for Christ, to see the good in others and praise it, to keep sweet and
to keep busy for Him, to have a seeing eye, a feeling heart, a helping hand,
to test the motive of life and choose the best, to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.

The Watchman-Examiner
 

Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset,
listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone
and share some special thought with a caring friend.

Barbara Johnson
  

The soul of the Christian
religion is reverence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And what greater calamity can fall upon
a nation than the loss of worship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
  

Who builds a church within their hearts
And takes it with them everywhere
Is holier far than they whose church
Is but a one-day house of prayer.

Morris Abel Beer
  

A person can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling "darkness" on the walls of his or her cell.

C.S. 
Lewis
   

The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn:
God's in his heaven--
All's right with the world.

Robert Browning
  
Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable.  It not only stretches us
beyond all the limits of our finite selves to affirm the divine depth of mystery
and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens us at the deepest level
of our being to an act which unites us most realistically with our fellow people.

Samuel H. Miller
 

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This is my prayer to thee, my lord--strike,
Strike at the root of penury in my heart.
Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows.
Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service.
Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might.
Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles.
And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.

Rabindranath Tagore
   
  
The highest point a person can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness,
or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic, and more despairing:  Sacred Awe!

Nikos Kazantzakis
from Zorba the Greek
 
  

 

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