Quotes About Worship

I am a religious person and rely heavily on prayers.

The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.

I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.

The way people come to church every week, know the songs and be hurting on the inside. We miss the moment to really encounter God... bring healing.

I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'

People love to hear the choir sing the hymns.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.

There's some belting hymns. Brilliant hymns. When I was an altar boy the hymns were great.

I don't believe in icons.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

I have two idols in my life - God and my mum.

Christians, just like anybody else, want to have an impact on their lives. And if you can find music that helps you have an impact on your family, on your faith, on yourself, then that's the kind of music you want to listen to.

In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in very functional modern chapels.

I have always been fascinated by Krishna, the Indian deity.

Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.

The others want to coerce her. I want her to want me... so he prayed to Aphrodite, goddess of love.

For there is in man too: a vaunting pride that needs little sustenance to make it swell to giant size. Improve his lot, and he will forget that which makes him pleasing- his sense of worship, his humility. He will grow poisoned with pride and fancy himself a god...

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.