Worship Quotes

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself.

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

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.