ADORATION

See also: Worship

We cannot by searching find the bottom, we must sit down at the brink and adore the depths.

Matthew Arnold

We do better to adore the mysteries of deity than to investigate them.

Philip Melanchthon

Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration.

Christina Rossetti

The most fundamental need, duty, honor and happiness of mankind is not petition, nor even contrition, nor again even thanksgiving – these three kinds of prayer which, indeed, must never disappear out of our spiritual lives – but adoration.

Von Hügel, Friedrich

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free;

The holy time is quiet as a nun

Breathless with adoration.

William Wordsworth