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King Hendrick, fully Hendrick Tiyanoga NULL
If my warriors are to fight they are too few; if they are to die they are too many.
Wisdom |
The end of worship amongst men is power. For where a man seeth another worshipped, he supposeth him powerful, and is the readier to obey him; which makes his power greater. But God has no ends: the worship we do him proceeds from our duty and is directed according to our capacity by those rules of honor that reason dictateth to be done by the weak to the more potent men, in hope of benefit, for fear of damage, or in thankfulness for good already received from them.
Capacity | Duty | Ends | Fear | God | Good | Honor | Hope | Man | Men | Power | Reason | Thankfulness | Wisdom | Worship | God |
The Indian... sees his music as indistinct from his dancing and his dancing as indistinct from his worship and his worship as indistinct from his living.
Emil G. Hirsch, fully Emil Gustav Hirsch
The aim of our worship is the purification, enlightenment, and uplifting of our inner selves.
Enlightenment | Wisdom | Worship |
Emil G. Hirsch, fully Emil Gustav Hirsch
True worship is not a petition to God: it is a sermon to our selves.
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
Charity | Cheerfulness | Money | Wisdom |
The problem of our purpose is a religious problem... Our purpose is derived from faith and is imposed onto reality by our own souls. But faith and religious truth themselves are not absolute. They are relative. Thus the answers one gives to questions about the purpose of life must necessarily be relative to a time, a place, a tradition... To know and worship God means, in Baha’ullah’s words, to promote the unity of the human race and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men”... Someday there will be a global society in which humanity will realize its spiritual and moral potential... The destiny of mankind, actually, is the ultimate creation of the world civilization. It is only in the service of such a cause that I find the meaning and purpose of life.
Absolute | Cause | Civilization | Destiny | Faith | Global | God | Human race | Humanity | Life | Life | Love | Mankind | Meaning | Means | Men | Purpose | Purpose | Race | Reality | Service | Society | Spirit | Time | Tradition | Truth | Unity | Will | Wisdom | Words | World | Worship | Society | God |
Josephus, fully Titus Flavius Josephus, aka Joseph ben Matthias or Matityahu NULL
Everyone should worship God in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience, and not under constraint.
Conscience | Constraint | God | Wisdom | Worship | God |