Worship Quotes

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. (Bertrand Russell)
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick? View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? View quote
Charles de Lint
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
Wonder is the basis of worship. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. (Oscar Wilde)
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
Northrop Frye
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
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. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. View quote
Billy Wilder
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. View quote
Barack Obama
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
More people worship the rising than the setting sun. (Pompey)
Those who marry God can become domesticated too it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night. View quote
Graham Greene
You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed. That has nothing to do with the business of the State. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. View quote
Edward Gibbon
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. View quote
Samuel Johnson