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Quotes about Worship


Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?

Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

William Shakespeare

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

Bhagavad Gita

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Miguel de Cervantes

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

Francis Bible

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

Thomas Carlyle

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.

Thomas Carlyle

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Book of Common Prayer

Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.

Dave Barry

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

Aubrey Eben

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God

Jerome K. Jerome

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

Bhagavad Gita

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

Bhagavad Gita

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

John Muir

Hope, he called, belief In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?

Unattributed Bible

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Sir Richard F Burton

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

James Russell Lowell

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

Isaac Watts

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