Worship Quotes

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?

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

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.

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.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

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.

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.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

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.

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.

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.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

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.

Not everyone can lead worship.

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.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

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.

Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

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.

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.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

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.