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It is the Mass the matters.
Author: Augustine Birrell
Source: What, Then, Did Happen at the Reformation?, published in "Nineteenth Century", Apr., 1896, answered,
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Ah, why
Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect
God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore
Only among the crowd and under roofs
That our frail hands have raised?
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Source: A Forest Hymn (l. 16)
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I worship the quicksand he walks in.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Source: A Forest Hymn (l. 16)
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He wakes a portion with judicious care;
And "Let us worship God!" he says, with solemn air.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: The Cotter's Saturday Night (st. 12)
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Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to
worship by all means the gods of the place.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec,. IV, memb. 1, subsec. 5)
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The heart ran o'er
With silent worship of the great of old!--
The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule
Our spirits from their urns.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Manfred (act III, sc. 4)
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Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite
shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so
see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes
thereon.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of
worship.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: in an address
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I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the
saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one for t'other. Save
me and I'll give you a taper or go on a pilgrimage.
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Source: The Shipwreck
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What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile;
In vain with lavish kindness
The gifts of God are strown;
The heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone.
Author: Bishop Reginald Heber
Source: From Greenland's Icy Mountains--Missionary Hymn
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Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod,
They have left unstained, what there they found,--
Freedom to worship God.
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Source: The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
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As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds.
And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs.
And he clothes them with thunders and beauty,
He clothes them with music and fire,
Seeing not, as he bows by their altars,
That he worships his own desire.
Author: Donald Marquis (D.R.P. Marquis) ("Don Marquis")
Source: The God-Maker, Man
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For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true;
And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow
too;
For no form of a god, and no fashion
Man has made in his desperate passion,
But is worthy some worship of mine;
Not too hot with a gross belief,
Nor yet too cold with pride,
I will bow me down where my brothers bow,
Humble, but open eyed.
Author: Donald Marquis (D.R.P. Marquis) ("Don Marquis")
Source: The God-Maker, Man
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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,
Forget not.
Author: John Milton
Source: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
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How often from the steep
Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard
Celestial voices to the midnight air,
Sole, or responsive each to other's note,
Singing their great Creator?
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 680)
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the
place where he chanced to be.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Apology for Raimond Sebond, quoting Apollo
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So shall they build me altars in their zeal,
Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel:
Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell,
Written in blood--and Bigotry may swell
The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!
Author: Edward Moore
Source: Lalla Rookh--Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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Together kneeling, night and day,
Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine,
And I--at any God's for thine.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Lalla Rookh--Fire Worshippers (fourth division, l. 309)
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Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not
religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true
God, he will have his idols.
Author: Theodore Parker
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Writings (Essay I, A Lesson for the Day)
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Stoop, boys. This gate
Instructs you how t' adore the heavens and bows you
To a morning's holy office.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, iii)
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Intend some fear;
Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit;
And look you get a prayer book in your hand
And stand between two churchmen, good my lord,
For on that ground I'll make a holy descant;
And be not easily won to our requests.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Henry the Third (Buckingham at III, iii)
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