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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child – William Shakespeare
The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted. – John Owen
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. – Mahatma Gandhi
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. – John Piper
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career. – Albert Einstein
They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission) – Ronald Reagan
A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years. – William Golding
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. – Mackay
At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing. – Baltasar Gracian
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. – Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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. – Thomas Jefferson
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. – Woodrow Wilson
Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses. – H. L. Mencken
Equality of Men "Men are born equal, naked and without chains. They were not created by God to be enslaved, neither were they endowed with intelligence in order to be misled, nor adorned with reason to be fooled by others. It is not pride to refuse to worship a fellow man, to enlighten the mind, and to reason everything. The arrogant one is he who wants to be worshipped, who misleads others, and who wants his will to prevail over reason and lustice."( Jose Rizal Message to the women of Malolos, Europe, Feb. 1889) – Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. – Flavius Josephus
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it. – Benjamin Franklin
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. – Henry Ward Beecher
I worship the quicksand he walks in. – Art Buchwald
Idol worship is worshiping, adoring, gossiping, boasting or even being caught-up with anything that is created. – Vijay Samuel Benjamin
If you ever meet a higher being, do not worship it; only try to be its friend! Worship is primitiveness and no higher and developed being likes worshipping! – Mehmet Murat ildan
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country. – Hendrik W. Van Loon
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. – John Christian Bovee
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. – Jacob Bronowski

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