The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship. – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death. – Karl Pilkington
The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom. – L. Lionel Kendrick
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. – John Frame
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship. – Julius Wellhausen
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I’ve practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. – Leonard Cohen
Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship. – Robert Webb
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord. – Richard Foster
You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over. – Richard Madden
The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation. – Robert Rainy
We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody’s sure in honor of what. – Robyn Hitchcock
Akhenaten’s allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many. – Pamela Sargent
I may worship the image of the Lord; but that act is worthless if it is not accompanied with devotion. In the absence of devotion, the idol will just be a piece of stone, and so shall I; and the worship will only mean that a stone is facing a stone! – Vinoba Bhave
The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper… no one cared what he believed about its origin. – William Robertson Smith
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. – Theodor Reik
I don’t take much notice of reviews now – obviously you’d like to have straight worship but you’re never going to get that. – Tibor Fischer
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater – making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us. – Shane Claiborne