Quotes About Worship

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

The idol is the expression of religion.

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

It's not religion that's the problem - it's the lack of religion!

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

Christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship with God through Christ.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said and done, a relationship with God.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.