Be yourself. The world worships the original.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
~By Richard Burton ~
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 ~
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
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 ~
The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
~By Boris Becker ~
The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.
~By Charles Hodge ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.
~By John Tesh ~
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
~By Barney Frank ~
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.
~By Howard Dean ~
Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.
~By Edmund Blunden ~
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 ~
'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
~By Ahmet Necdet Sezner ~
GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it.
~By Nicolai A. Berdyaev ~
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
~By Alice Walker ~
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 ~
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
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 ~
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 ~
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
~By Bodhidharma ~
Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
~By George Pataki ~
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
~By George Gillespie ~
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
~By Lionel Blue ~
For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
~By Lionel Blue ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
~By John Frame ~
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
~By Florence King ~
Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
~By Bill Maher ~
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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 ~
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 ~
We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.
~By Lactantius ~
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
~By Alan Dundes ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
~By Saadi ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
~By Billy Wilder ~
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
~By George Orwell ~
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 ~
The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.
~By John Tesh ~
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
~By Michael Newdow ~
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
Wonder is the basis of worship.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.
~By John Clayton ~
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 ~
In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
~By John Muir ~
I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
~By John Ruskin ~
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 ~
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
~By Vita Sackville-West ~
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Not everyone can lead worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
~By Eugene McCarthy ~
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.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
~By Alan Cohen ~
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
~By Willie Stargell ~
Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
~By John Fahey ~
I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.
~By Martha Reeves ~
You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.
~By Charles King ~
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 ~
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
~By Clive Bell ~
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.
~By Arthur Middleton ~
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