Quotes About Worship

The trouble with gods is that after enough people start believing in them, they begin to exist. And what begins to exist isn't what was originally intended.

Ankh-Morpork is a godless city--' 'I thought it had more than three hundred places of worship?' said Maladict. Strappi stared at him in rage that was incoherent until he managed to touch bottom again. 'Ankh-Morpork is a godawful city', he recovered.

Down there,' he said, 'are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul.

Aziraphale was an angel, but he also worshiped books.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

Creating a monument is a matter of taste and values and the means to get it made. Once you monumentalize a person, place, or thing, you run the risk of worship. And what we worship, for better or for worse, freezes the story.

The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo.

Never seek support elsewhere than in the Divine. Never seek satisfaction elsewhere than in the Divine. Never seek the satisfaction of your needs in anyone else than the Divine - never, for anything at all. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers, p.73

Whatever you do, always remember the Divine. 5 May 1954

Is there a wisdom in objects? Few objects praise the Lord.

We worship the future, not the past. We worship what is to come, not what has been. We aspire to the consequences of our own acts. We keep before us the image of that which is malleable and growing—of that which we have the power to improve. We worship that very power in ourselves, and the sense of responsibility which lives with it. A child is all of these things. Also …

Speaking only for myself, the ideal finale to me is 'Friday Night Lights,' where you have loved and worshipped a show for all these years, you get to come back, celebrate the characters, finish up their journeys, and send everyone out with a feeling of, 'My God, I'm so grateful that I got to know these people.'

I only serve one God, and I'm only judged by one God.

I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.

The Pentecostals had horns, drums, guitars, huge choirs, and screaming and dancing and all kinds of stuff. That was for me.

Read the psalms out loud to God, allowing the words to become your own. Then write out your own specific prayers to him as well. It will amaze you when you go back later and see the ways that God answered your prayers.

You must never deprive the people of their belief in the power of the gods, and you must never deprive yourself of it either.

I want to tell her revenge is a devil you don't want to worship. In destroying your enemy you become it.

Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a God, but he comes down and checks on folks, so long as they hang in certain places, put up alters, burn lots of candles and incense, and perform sit-stand-kneel and other wacky rituals that'd make a coven of witches not look OCD.

Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a God, but he comes down and checks on folks, so long as they hang in certain places, put up altars, burn lots of candles and incense, and perform sit-stand-kneel and other wacky rituals that'd make a coven of witches look not OCD.

I'm not surprised to feel myself trembling. I'm touching my goddess.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.

That's a Christian concept. No self-respecting witch would worship a Christian god of evil.