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 ~
The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
~By Ahmet Necdet Sezner ~
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 worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.
~By Martha Reeves ~
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
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 ~
I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
~By Jane Elliot ~
I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
~By Willie Stargell ~
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 ~
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
~By Clive Bell ~
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 ~
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
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 ~
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.
~By Tom Allen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it.
~By Nicolai A. Berdyaev ~
I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
~By George Gillespie ~
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
~By Ramakrishna ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
~By George Pataki ~
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 ~
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.
~By John Tesh ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
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 ~
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
~By John Piper ~
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 ~
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
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 ~
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.
~By Edmund Blunden ~
In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
~By Peter Coyote ~
Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.
~By John Tesh ~
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
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 ~
I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
~By John Woolman ~
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
~By Saadi ~
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 ~
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
~By Michael Newdow ~
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 ~
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 ~
When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.
~By Cliff Richard ~
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 ~
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
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 ~
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
~By James Larkin ~
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 ~
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
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 ~
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
~By George Orwell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
~By William Cowper ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
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 ~
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.
~By Brian Welch ~
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 ~
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