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Brother Lawrence Monk, Cook
Worship

"To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him?"

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Ramana Maharshi Spiritual Teacher
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"The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that."

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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
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"Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits."

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