英语格言警句_Worship_(W13)

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Our concern is not how to worship in the catabs, but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

- Robert G. Ingersoll

The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.

- Edward Gibbon

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

- Ambrose Bierce

WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

- Ambrose Bierce

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

- John Muir

The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship.

- George MacDonald

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

You deserve the gods you worship.

- Solomon Short

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

- Isocrates

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

- Richard Francis Burton

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

- Dorothy Thompson

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. A person will worship something, have no doubt about that.We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out.That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character.Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are being.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has bee my prayer.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.

letter to Connecticut Baptists

- Thomas Jefferson