William Wordsworth Quotes

During the rests - pray.

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

We're commanded by God to worship God with our mind.

For me, because my life is so public, I just like to be alone sometimes in my private house and enjoy my time.

I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

What better place to kill time than a library?

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world

Either all days are holy or none are.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are much more accessible. They are men and women like us, who live ordinary lives and struggle with ordinary problems. What makes them saints is their clear and unwavering focus on God and God's people.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.