Quotes About Worship

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Fear first created the gods.

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Religion without joy-it is no religion.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

One mans cult is another mans religion.

Some kneel and lie to God.

I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.