Worship For Contemplation Quotes & Sayings

A friend is someone who will bike to the ice cream shop with you, even when you don't look so good. — Lois Greiman

Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years. — Muhammad

Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it. — Rob James-Collier

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship. — Elijah Muhammad

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way. — John Ashcroft

So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before. — Aleksander Kwasniewski

With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. — John Milton

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who has become our food, our life, the manifestation of the Church as the body of Christ. This is why the gifts themselves never became in the Orthodox East an object of special reverence, contemplation, and adoration, and likewise an object of special theological 'problematics': how, when, in what manner their change is accomplished. — Alexander Schmemann

The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this is like having a natural skylight. Light is the crucial factor. With wet oil paints, you don't want any hot spots or bounce. — Pierre Coupey

I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it. — Stephen King

Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right. — Sara Sheridan

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song. — R. Kent Hughes

Solemn silence makes noble worship. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Christ died in your place on the cross, paying for your sins, fully forgiving you for all your wrongs. You are cleansed from guilt, and you are becoming a cleaner, healthier, more whole person. — Brian D. McLaren

Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions. — Davis Bunn

As for myself, I was never against Russia. — Eduard Shevardnadze

This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset; it encourages wishful thinking toward and elusive and likely non-existent afterlife while often enabling the believer to squander this life as somehow less important. — David G. McAfee

It would be a grand thing for any community, large or small, to set aside even five minutes of the day for serious contemplation. If nothing more were to result than the recognition of such a feeling as "community" it would be a great step forward. If it be true that we have not yet accepted the fact that we are members of "one world," or even of one nation, how much more true it is that we are not even members of the little communities to which we belong. We become more and more atomized, more and more separate and isolate. We hand our problems over to our respective governments, absolving ourselves of duty, conscience, and initiative. We do not believe in personal example, though we profess to worship that great exemplar Jesus the Christ. We hide from the face of reality: it is too terrible, we think. Yet it is we, only we, who have created this hideous world. And it is we who will change it - by changing our own inner vision. — Henry Miller

The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease — Pope John Paul II

If you don't speak Greek, how do you know if it's all Greek to you? — Jarod Kintz

I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that exists, evidently, only in the contemplation of those who worship such abstractions; and I continue to notice that Natural Law bears an uncanny resemblance to ideal Platonic Horseshit. — Robert Anton Wilson

Worship is adoring contemplation of God. — R.A. Torrey

Perhaps this agony will wash away in the shower. — E.L. James