I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.
~By Martha Reeves ~
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 ~
Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
~By Bill Maher ~
For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
~By Lionel Blue ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Worship is transcendent wonder.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.
~By John Tesh ~
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 ~
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 ~
Self-made men often worship their creator.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.
~By Mary Antin ~
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.
~By Jim Wallis ~
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
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 ~
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
~By Art Buchwald ~
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 ~
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
~By George Gillespie ~
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
~By Stephen Fry ~
Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
~By John Fahey ~
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 ~
The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
~By Saadi ~
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.
~By Edmund Blunden ~
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 worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
~By Vita Sackville-West ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
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 ~
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
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 ~
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
~By Alice Walker ~
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.
~By John Frame ~
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 ~
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 ~
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Wonder is the basis of worship.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
~By Lionel Blue ~
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
~By Bodhidharma ~
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 ~
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 worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.
~By Savitri Devi ~
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 ~
When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.
~By Cliff Richard ~
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 ~
This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
~By Cat Stevens ~
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 ~
In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Not everyone can lead worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
~By James Larkin ~
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
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 ~
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
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 ~
God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
~By John Piper ~
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 ~
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
~By Larry Norman ~
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
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 ~
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'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
~By Lactantius ~
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 ~
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 ~
The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
~By Peter Coyote ~
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
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 worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
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