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"idol worship is worshiping, adoring, gossiping, boasting or even being caught-up with anything that is created." »Vijay Samuel Benjamin
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"Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money." »Mark Twain
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"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever." »John Piper
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"worship the potato The idea seemed silly to me. But then I thought, what else is more deserving of worship It's simple, it comes from the earth, and it can kill you if you disobey it." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If you ever meet a higher being, do not worship it; only try to be its friend! worship is primitiveness and no higher and developed being likes worshipping!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand." »Frederick the Great
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"Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless." »William Franklin Billy Graham
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"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"I worship the quicksand he walks in." »Art Buchwald
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"Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly." »John Owen
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"Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force." »Flavius Josephus
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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses." »H. L. Mencken
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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted." »John Owen
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"Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth." »Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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"Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills." »Miguel Gervantes
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"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat." »John Viscount Morley
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"Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat." »John Morley
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"There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship." »Marquis de Sade
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"It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon." »John Christian Bovee
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"I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it." »Benjamin Franklin
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"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." »Jacob Bronowski
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"We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears" »John Ruskin
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"There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, worship without sacrifice and politics without principle." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented." »John Calvin
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"To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it." »Aubrey Eben
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