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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
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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 |
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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
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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
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For the Christian who
loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
Honore de Balzac |
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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 |
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Martin Buber
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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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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