We must remember that this nation was founded by people fleeing religious persecution, risking everything to find a place to be free to worship as they chose or not to worship at all.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn’t care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.
Fallen angels could not enter sanctuaries of God. The moment they crossed the threshold, the house of worship would go up in flames, incinerating every mortal inside.
Culture’s essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people’s excessive worship for foreign goods and the fixed idea of what clothes ought to be. I wanted to change the rigid formula of clothing that the Japanese followed.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
If you’re at the top, people worship you wherever you go. But when you’re dying down, it’s difficult to sell tickets!
The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
I’m such a huge fan of Steve Howe, I worship him.
We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God’s commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.
I was doing worship as a lifestyle before it was a section at the bookstore.
There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
As any Christian would understand, I feel church is sacred. For me, it is the place I worship, where I learn about God and feel closest to Him each week.
You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.
I love being a worship leader, but because I’m also a record company owner, a publishing company owner and a brand developer, I have an economic and a fiscal responsibility as well.
I’m a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.
Why is it assumed that if I dance around wearing skimpy costumes, I cannot properly worship my Jesus? I am a born again Christian.
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.
If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man’s nature.
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
We Americans are childish about our celebrities and icons. We worship, then we denounce; we identify passionately with them and then, if they do something – anything – we dislike, we cast them off.
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
The women that I worship all hit their stride in their 30s or 40s or after. And that’s going to be for me, too.
I think power will do anything to survive and one of its main techniques is the rule of exceptions. So it makes an exception out of people and we worship them, whether that’s Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. These people become beatified beyond recognition.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation – memory.
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
When you understand that everything – and I do mean everything – in this nation that we live in, if not this world, is connected to the almighty dollar, it doesn’t mean you worship it.
I just worship Madonna. As, like, a young gay kid growing up in the ’80s and ’90s… I was at the Blond Ambition tour with my parents vogue-ing up in the mezzanine at the Nassau Coliseum.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Christianity doesn’t demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don’t remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower.
For the record, I don’t worship the devil. I just hate religion.
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you’ll do is fall down and worship it.
Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we’re talking about.
The stream of empty platitudes ordering troop worship is especially ironic considering the abysmal treatment veterans receive once they return home.
The evidence shows that religious people – defined by regular attendance at a place of worship – actually do make better neighbors.
God’s supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living.
People think you’re crazy if you turn money down… people worship money.
What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who’s good-looking; if they open their mouths and they’re an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.
I concluded that all religions had the same foundation – a belief in the supernatural – a power above nature that man could influence by worship – by sacrifice and prayer.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
We will unconditionally worship Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, partly because we approve of their well-mannered modesty. They are non-threatening, good hearted blokes – the boys we take home to Momma.
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it’s almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they’re taking it to the hilt.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in ‘Peter Pan,’ and then I was super-involved in church choir and worship leading at my church. So I always loved music and was involved with it, but never really thought it was what I wanted to do until I started writing.
Shah Rukh Khan is an institution in himself. Like me, there are millions who adore and worship the Badshah of Bollywood. I’ve been a huge fan of him even before I decided to become an actor.
I have a family which is a mix of all religions, so I worship all gods and follow all religions.
I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.
We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.
My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.
