Lemuel K. Washburn Quotes

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God... To me the most beautiful thing anyone on earth can experience, other than maybe marriage and child-bearing, would be the Orthodox Liturgy.

I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

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

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

Parents are to be respected - it Is a commandment from God.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.

If God himself did not compel obedience, than no man should try.

If they [elected politicians] ought to be just towards men, ought they not also to abstain from robbing God, and to render unto him that honour which is HIS due?

It is the right and duty of all men publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being.