Pastoral Resources

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

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.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

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.

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.