Worship Quotes - page 2

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. (Samuel Johnson)
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out. View quote
Joni Mitchell
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. View quote
Anthony de Mello
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. View quote
David Foster Wallace
The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful. View quote
Francis Collins
Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The national religion in the United States is worship of all things military. And journalists are its high priests. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
To know the mighty works of God to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High to whom ignorance can not be more grateful than knowledge. (Nicolaus Copernicus)
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Some men worship rank, some men worship heroes, some men worship power, some men worship God, and over these ideals they dispute -- but they all worship money. View quote
Mark Twain
Too fair to worship, too divine to love. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Kings are like stars,they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones. View quote
Albert Einstein
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran. View quote
Dean Karnazes
I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all. View quote
Michael W. Smith
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. View quote
William Robertson Smith
I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. (Mahatma Gandhi)
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either. View quote
John Updike
As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have an unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State. View quote
Thomas Jefferson