#worship

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

#deity #i #one thing #practiced #thing

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#just #self #vehicle #worship #worthy

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#chieftain #command #fashion #find #give

Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#barren #been #catholic #churches #especially

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#crumbs #different #eating #feast #forever

I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#against #because #congregation #discriminate #doing

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#closest #monotheism #period #unity #way

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#ground #i #neighborhood #only #walked

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#attribute #belonging #character #clothes #endeavors

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#ignore #leads #product #reaction #worship