Quotes About Worship

In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, 'Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?'

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.

If Bollywood had its temple, then Amitabh Bachchan's idol would be in it.

If someone asks me whether I have seen God in flesh and blood, my answer would be that I believe that a temple priest is the God in front of me.

Whenever I can snatch two-three days, I get into the car or a train and head straight for a temple site, mostly Brihadishvara Temple.

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.

The only reason we go to temples is in the belief that God will solve all our sorrows in life.

To be honest, I'm a very spiritual person - I go to temples regularly, do a puja every morning and I know the Hanuman Chalisa by-heart.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

Simply put, to please God means to bring him delight by being and doing what he desires.

forget all this foolishness; leave the arguments to the pashus, and you worship God in whatever form you please.

The shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe is the most visited religious site in the Christian world, surpassing Lourdes, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and St. Peter's itself. People still go there by the millions every year in order to commune with La Virgen Morena, many journeying to her over many miles on their knees.

No country, leader, political party, culture, civilization, moral ideal, or rival god can compete with the one God.

passed on by the hook-nosed herdsmen of the grasslands, from the dwellers in tents to the dwellers in the squat stone cities where kings with curled blueblack beards worshipped round-bellied gods with curious rites.

Mithorden said it well," she said finally. "It's worshipping death. They say they follow light. But, in the end, they're really following desolation, division, the end of things. You should hear their prophecies -- war, destruction, only special chosen people are spared." She felt sad and angry. Worse, she wondered to what ends people who believed these things would go to assert their views.

Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make others so.

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of Hell? Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy.