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Quotes About Worship

Numai moartea nu cere daruri dintre zei.
~ Aristophanes
Ne zaman Ploutos eskisi gibi görür oldu ondan beri kimse biz tanr?lara ne buhur, ne defne, ne arpa ekmeÄŸi, ne kurban, ne baÅŸka bir ÅŸey takdim eder oldu.
~ Aristophanes
The nobelest expenditure is that which is made in the Divine Service
~ Aristotle
To be worshiped is not freedom.
~ Shulamith Firestone
I could see the solace she discovered. Here she could sing and dance and shout for glory among people who didn't care which pew she sat in, whose people she belonged to, and whether she was baking a roast for the church homecoming. They were people who yearned for one thing, and one thing only: a pure relationship with that part of the Trinity so often neglected in organized worship. The Holy Spirit. Slouching
~ Sibella Giorello
First, it can never be something we do for God. Second, it is its own end. Third, it is a response to God's total character, more specifically to the triune God. First
~ Simon Chan
The Christian cult is a basically political action: it reminds the state of the limited and provisional character of its power, and when the state claims for itself an absolute trust and obedience, the Christian cult protests against this pretension to claim a kingdom, a power and a glory which belong of right to God alone. That is why, in gathering together for Christian worship, men compromise themselves politically.s
~ Simon Chan
If I had rediscovered in Heaven, amplified to infinity, the monstrous alliance of fragility and implacability, of caprice and artificial necessity which had oppressed me since my birth, rather than worship Him I would have chosen damnation.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Nous n'avons pas à acquérir l'humilité. L'humilité est en nous. Seulement nous nous humilions devant de faux dieux.
~ Simone Weil
There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death--who knows?--may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death.
~ Sophocles
Both noun (eusebia) and verb (sebizo) derive from the Greek root seb-, which refers to the awe that radiates from gods to humans and is given back as worship. Everything related to this root has fear in it.
~ Sophocles
Not I. Only the gods can give you that.
~ Sophocles
Reserved for the priest of Dionysus
~ Sophocles
I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.
~ George W. Bush
The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.
~ Henri Nouwen
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
~ Maria Montessori
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation).
~ Dada Bhagwan
Devote yourself to prayer.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is only but the praise of prayer.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God.
~ Jim George
I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.
~ Ben Zobrist
Prayer is sacred act for all seasons.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita