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Quotes About Worship

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!
~ George Bernard Shaw
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
~ George Carlin
The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music.
~ George Dardess
It was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshiping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleasant to no man but the husband in question. Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
~ George Eliot
It was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshipping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleasant to no man but the husband in question. Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
~ George Eliot
For continual suffering had annihilated religious faith within me: to the utterly miserable –the unloving and the unloved –there is no religion possible, no worship but a worship of devils.
~ George Eliot
Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.
~ George Harrison
The Ephesians took great pride in their temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Amazons had worshipped here, and the fabulously rich King Croesus built the original temple.
~ Adrienne Mayor
God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
~ Chanakya
The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.
~ Brennan Manning
We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'
~ John Burroughs
All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
~ Ramakrishna
Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.
~ John Sheffield
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
~ Sai Baba
When you accept serving humanity as your religion, you start to feel God within you, then you don't need to search God in any Temples or Mosques.
~ Sai Baba
Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.
~ Saint Augustine
May my life be a continual prayer, a long act of love.
~ Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity
My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
~ Saint Mary
Down in adoration falling,Lo! the sacred Host we hail;Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,Newer rites of grace prevail;Faith for all defects supplying,Where the feeble senses fail.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Great praxis demands great piety.
~ Sallie McFague