Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
~By Florence King ~
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
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.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.
~By Savitri Devi ~
The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.
~By Kim Novak ~
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
~By Ramakrishna ~
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
~By John Piper ~
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
Wonder is the basis of worship.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
~By James Larkin ~
Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
~By George Pataki ~
I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
~By Art Buchwald ~
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.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
~By Charles Barkley ~
For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
~By Lionel Blue ~
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.
~By William L. Jenkins ~
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.
~By John Foxe ~
Not everyone can lead worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.
~By James Hogg ~
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
~By Stephen Fry ~
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
~By John Lennon ~
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
~By Charles Barkley ~
Worship is transcendent wonder.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it.
~By Nicolai A. Berdyaev ~
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
~By Tom Brokaw ~
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
~By Vita Sackville-West ~
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
~By Northrop Frye ~
I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.
~By Marc Jacobs ~
I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?
~By Lemuel K. Washburn ~
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
~By Martha Stewart ~
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
~By Ramakrishna ~
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
~By James D. Houston ~
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
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.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
~By Michael Newdow ~
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
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.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
~By Ted Lange ~
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
~By Larry Norman ~
A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
Self-made men often worship their creator.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids. I think I must have been Adolf Hitler in a past life.
~By Roseanne Barr ~
I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
~By Alice Walker ~
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
~By Dalton Trumbo ~
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
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.
~By Anthony de Mello ~
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
~By Richard Burton ~
I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
~By Billy Graham ~
I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
~By Willie Stargell ~
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?
~By John Clayton ~
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.
~By John Tesh ~
Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal.
~By Tom Araya ~
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.
~By Barack Obama ~
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
~By Theodor Reik ~
GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
~By John Morley ~
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.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
~By John Knox ~
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.
~By George Pataki ~
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
~By Martin Gardner ~
I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.
~By Alex Campbell ~
Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.
~By David E. Price ~
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
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.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.
~By Tom Allen ~
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
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.
~By Robert Rainy ~
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
~By Thomas More ~
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