Worship Quotes
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I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.
Richard Mourdock -
On the practical level, the gods were understood to be closely connected with every aspect of the social and political life of a community... On the imperial level this meant that it was widely known—and genuinely believed by most—that it was the gods who had made the empire great... The Christians refused to worship or even acknowledge the gods of the empire, claiming in fact that these were evil, demonic beings, not beneficent deities that promoted the just cause of the greatest empire the world had ever known. The refusal to worship was seen by others to be dangerous to the well-being of the empire and thus to the security of the state. And so the decision to persecute—which seems to us, perhaps, to be a strictly religious affair—was at the time inherently sociopolitical as well.
Bart Ehrman
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In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.
Carmen Boullosa -
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
George Gillespie -
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
Seneca the Younger -
Having said that, my absorption in nature, its healing powers, and omnipresence in ourselves and the world that surrounds us is, in itself, a form of ultimate worship.
Nick Baker -
Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.
Edmund Clowney -
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
Eugene McCarthy
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How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.
Isaac Watts -
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
Eugene H. Peterson -
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
Thomas Carlyle -
This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in this nation and I think that's great and everybody should have the ability to worship as he or she sees fit. I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
Michael Newdow -
If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.
Tony Evans -
If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?
Francis Chan
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Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.
Francis Chan -
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.
Erica Jong -
Worship is transcendent wonder.
Thomas Carlyle -
Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.
Francis Chan -
What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates the body of Christ?
Geoffrey W Bromiley -
Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to worship at the temple of Jupiter. But Horace's poetry has lasted longer than Jupiter's religion, and Jupiter himself has only survived because he disappeared into literature.
Northrop Frye
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What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.
Diane Ackerman -
People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.
Paul Mooney -
To worship is to remember Who owns the house.
Walter Wink -
The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.
Hugo Black