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Quotes About Worship

An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
...never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.
~ Christian Lacroix
Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.
~ Douglas Horton
Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God
~ Francis Bacon
I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.
~ George Harrison
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.
~ Milton S. Eisenhower
There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Men can make an idol of the Bible.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
All men have need of the gods.
~ Homer
Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.
~ James Madison
As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.
~ Ron Carlson
God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I owe you money?
~ Bill Burr
People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.
~ Paul Mooney
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.
~ Mark Twain
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
~ Propertius
Greatest god below the sky.
~ Edmund Spenser
though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.
~ J. E. Buckrose
A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.
~ Jonathan Sacks