Quotes About Worship

Man, the Russians believed, found his most profound fulfillment and was mos himself when he glorified God. In the act of worshipping God, a divine energy was released which permitted him to surpass himself and to participate in the divine life, even on earth.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil to lift off the bondage and illusion

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. 'God created man after His own image.' That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it!

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?

God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.

One infinite - pure and holy - beyond thoughts and beyond qualities - bow down to thee

GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment

Even if you have knowledge, do not disturb the childlike faith of the ignorant. On the other hand, go down to their level and gradually bring them up (note 30). That is a very powerful idea, and it has become the ideal in India. That is why you can see a great philosopher going into a temple and worshipping images. It is not hypocrisy.

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy — by one, or more, or all of these — and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake. Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Good songwriters write about what consumes their heart, and ours is about our relationship with God.

I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable to be a liberal.

It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.

I think in the media we tend to deify people in these public spaces.

Arrange your life in such a way that you don't make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God.

...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...

If you make anything a higher priority than God, you are worshiping it and not God.

I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.

A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance.