Giordano Bruno on Platonic Love (from the Heroic Frenzies)

...this beauty to hold me captive of its external worship, when heaven itself so loves and honors it? ... shadow, he will arrive at the contemplation and worship of divine beauty, light, and majesty. Thus from ...they are more removed from matter and sense. Oh God, he will say, if a shadowy, cloudy, elusive beauty painted upon the surfaces of corporeal matter pleases me so much and so incites my passion,...

{ONESHOT} AND EVEN WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES, THE WORLD KEEPS SPINNING AROUND

...the good people are. Nino’s associate and best friend and roommate, and god only knows what else they are, is a quiet guy with a ... is a friend of Nino and Ohno, and Nino seems to actually worship him a lot , so Tegoshi thinks Matsumoto is certainly not all that bad.... it’s a lost a cause, because Matsumoto just does as he pleases and doesn’t give a damn about Tegoshi. But then sometimes, Tegoshi...

明治学院 Fall Semester Schedule

...FOR SOME REASON, and my head asploded and I accidentally blurted out "OH GOD, STOP!" Good times. Lots of novels and films to read, but it only...’s because I am so attached to the academe and I tend to worship my professors if they are amazing, maybe I just have a book ... people say that I’m too serious with my studies – and that both pleases and annoys me as well, because sometimes, though they don’t ...

Fic: Queen of Love and Beauty

... its ribbon. "So I might as well wear my hair as it pleases me, instead of trying to please them and failing. At least this way ...as she did so often these days, and muttering prayers to her lost god under her breath. Devan, as usual, sat at Shireen's right hand. ... over the desecrated ruin. In her youth, she had been taught to worship those gods, before her parents had turned to the faith of the Red ...

Who Changed the Sabbath? Quotes of Confession from "Church" Leaders

... is it laid down that worship should be done on Sunday."... the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of ..."But in VAIN do they worship Me, their doctrines are only ... teaches right?) "For the same God who said, “You must not ... who choose to do what pleases me and commit their lives ...and love his name, who worship him and do not desecrate...you?) "But anyone who obeys God’s laws and teaches them...

a jasper oneshot. [with an Original character.]

... to be a lesser version of a demi-god. His flesh is paler than my own, ... to contrast his muscular figure. That is his god side. The reason he is not whole is ... so. “So you love her. You will worship me,” “You are nothing but an old vampire.... I can see that the reaction only pleases the Travis-beast, and his palms slide ...my hips and legs. I explore the demi-god without much sane thought other than I ...

Prompt List (November 25th through November 30th) -- W.I.P.

...favorite of the Dai Li, and it pleases her to make him crawl and kiss...blessing - Rodimus is confronted with a god he's never quite believed in -...; harnesses and straps; leather ropework), cock worship (and optional anal/oral/rimming etc. .../Green Arrow, Kyle/Connor: athleticism - "Oh, God, don't die." - Discworld, Polly/Mal:... Dean has faith. Just not in God. - Supernatural, Dean/Jo, hunting - All the ...

... to be a lesser version of a demi-god. His flesh is paler than my own, ... to contrast his muscular figure. That is his god side. The reason he is not whole is ... so. “So you love her. You will worship me,” “You are nothing but an old vampire.... I can see that the reaction only pleases the Travis-beast, and his palms slide ...my hips and legs. I explore the demi-god without much sane thought other than I ...

... it is the gift of God— not by works, so that...can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ...this way, too: “I can worship God just as good at...something right does not obligate God to you – you already owe...bitter suffering and death. “For God demonstrates His love in this...go to church? To please God? No, although it does indeed...and Sacrament, just as it pleases my mother when I eat...

Our Daily Bread: 6 September 2009

...is with our devotional practices and even our worship services. Sometimes they sound discordant, but God hears our prayers and praises with fatherly ... redeemed hosts. But our adoration, though feeble, pleases the heart of the Divine Listener more than... Life > Attitudes > Thankfulness/Gratitude Christian Life > Worship > Expressions of Bible in One Year: Psalms...