Quotes About Worship

I believe that all people should be free to believe and worship as they please. I also believe that people should be free to act in ways that I consider ethically wrong. But there is at least one important restriction on this freedom that every just society must maintain. My religious and ethical freedom does not include the right to kill other people.

Don't kneel to me. That is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will enjoy hereafter.

Every person has something that concerns her ultimately and whatever it is, that object of ultimate concern is that person's God

In 1908 a French archaeologist declared that a Great Goddess concerned with death and fertility had been worshipped by all the Neolithic peoples of Europe and the Near East, and that her cult had been focused above all on images of her eyes and breasts. This enabled him to use any figure or symbol on a Neolithic site which could be interpreted as representing an eye or a breast as proof of that cult.

Glorify God, not yourself.

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.

Christians must be extremely vigilant against the ongoing temptations of idolatrous nationalism. Christians in the United States are especially prone to embrace this evil, but the temptation lurks in every nation.

Life is to be lived for an audience of One.

Poiché univa all'immaginazione la metodicità scientifica, era conscio del fatto che l'uomo moderno, quando non esistono leggi, tende costantemente a sfogare gli istinti più tenebrosi, che risalgono ai nostri scimmieschi, primitivi antenati, nella vita ordinaria, e nelle manifestazioni di culto.

A poet once wrote that cathedrals were never built beside the sea because it was so beautiful it would distract the people from praying.

To every religion the gods of other religions are only notions concerning God, but its own conception of God is to it God himself, the true God.

And there is yet another joy, even greater. It is the joy of communion with God.

But utopias always lead to dystopias, and dictators invariably become gods who demand daily worship.

The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship.

I hope you don't mean that," I said finally. "But I do. Alicia represents our church. Therefore, I am against our church. But, like most thinking human beings, I feel the need of a god to worship and to go to for comfort and succor. Therefore I'm going to the devil.

is not an easy thing to refuse to be worshipped.

Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

If you serve the king of kings, the rest will serve you, money, success, prosperity, etc

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

Oh shame on you, who call yourself a Christian! Do you not see that it is the grossest idolatry to speak of the market as though it were the rival of God?