Quotes About Worship

The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.

The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.

It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.