Quotes About Worship

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.

Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.

Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Let us think less of men and more of God.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.

Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.

Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.

Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.