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 ~
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 ~
Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.
~By Edmund Blunden ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.
~By Thomas Ken ~
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've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.
~By John Tesh ~
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
~By Lionel Blue ~
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
~By Florence King ~
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
~By Charles de Lint ~
When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.
~By Cliff Richard ~
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
~By Art Buchwald ~
I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.
~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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.
~By John Tesh ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
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 ~
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
~By Ahmet Necdet Sezner ~
Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
~By John Fahey ~
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 ~
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 ~
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
~By Vita Sackville-West ~
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
~By George Orwell ~
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 ~
Not everyone can lead worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
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 ~
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 ~
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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 ~
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
~By Michael Newdow ~
I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
~By Richard Burton ~
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
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 ~
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
~By William Cowper ~
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 ~
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
~By George Gillespie ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
~By Ramakrishna ~
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 ~
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 ~
God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
~By John Piper ~
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 ~
Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
~By Bill Maher ~
Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
~By George Pataki ~
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
~By Clive Bell ~
In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.
~By Tom Allen ~
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 ~
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 ~
Worship is transcendent wonder.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
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 ~
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
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