Quotes About Worship

They worshiped worthless idols, so they became worthless themselves.

two musical options: old hymns or cheery camp songs. Then, as hippie musicians who came to Jesus applied their talents to writing praise music about Him, Christian teenagers had new music to call their own. The resulting creative explosion—what's known now as contemporary Christian music—changed the face of worship in many churches for decades to come.

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry.

Christianity is not a religion. it is a relationship with God.

and the creation, in the world and above the world, that once was at variance with itself, is knit together in friendship: and we ... are made to join in the angels' song, offering the worship of their praise.

I couldn't help noticing certain parts of the statues have been polished to a high sheen by passing hands as the centuries passed. If it's a form of worship it is not much odder or more perverse than the saint's stone toe kissed to a stub by fervent lips.

We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)

To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are in the hands of their admirers, and the cult of which they are the object is not notably different from that accorded to their predecessors.

All founders of religious or political creeds have established them solely because they were successful in inspiring crowds with those fanatical sentiments which have as result that men find their happiness in worship and obedience and are ready to lay down their lives for their idol.

The crowd demands a god before everything else.

Everyone has a religion, whether they admit it or not. For some it's Catholicism; for others, Vegetarianism or Elvis or Linux/Macintosh/Windows.

There is no friendship possible between men and women[...]. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

Not all the gods who appear in these tales and fancies became more than mythological figures. Many of them continued merely in this role, without temple or form of worship; they had but a folklore or finally a theological existence. Others became the great gods of Egypt.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.

God and morality and religion come first.

Introibo ad altare Dei.

each morning is a blessing, as votive in nature as a communion wafer raised to the sky.

The veneration in which some people hold the gods says more about those people than about the gods

To a snail, a duck is a vengeful god.

Listen, don't meet your heroes. If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed.

What a splendid liar! she breathed softly. Don't you believe in God? Kent winced. In a large, embracing sense, yes, he said. I believe in Him, for instance, as revealed to our senses in all that living, growing glory you see out there through the window Nature and I have become pretty good pals, and you see I've sort of built up a mother goddess to worship instead of a he-god. Sacrilege, maybe, but it's a great comfort at times. But you didn't come to talk religion?