William Cullen Bryant Quotes

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?

William Cullen Bryant

• Worship
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• Neglect
• Adore
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• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Taken
  • Old
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• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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  • Peace
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• If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Going
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  • Places

• I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Finding
  • Ancient
  • Died

• Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Worship

• Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • Worship

• I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Language
  • Read
  • Ancient

• When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Family
  • Race
  • Neglect

• The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Man
  • Movement

• There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Together

• Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Purpose

• Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping...when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Men
  • Worship
  • Century

• I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Children
  • Done
  • War

• It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Great
  • Stories
  • Thanks

• I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Hurt
  • Matter
  • Adore

• Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Eye
  • Disappear
  • Ancient

• We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.

  

  Keith Getty
  • Unique
  • Worship
  • Essentials

• Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Worship
  • Appetite

• I'm always amazed at how much people 'get' when I'm performing overseas. I've never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I've taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That's been really useful.

  

  Russell Peters
  • People
  • Country
  • Taken

• 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?

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Worship
  • Ancient
  • Neglect