Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations especially those concerned with young people health arts and leisure neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him and love something to be cherished by him forever.
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
Sooner or later man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him through them you will realise Him.
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.
Let's face it God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved dearer than everything in this and next life.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
I don't think 'Gee I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love this funny worship.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.
There must be freedom for all to live to think to worship no book no avenue must be closed.
What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
I am a lover of truth a worshipper of freedom a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression freedom of worship freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?
Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions whether they are taking place in our communities at our dinner tables or in our places of worship.
I seek a deeper truth but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.