#worshipping

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#aids #attention #awaken #being #belief

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#brotherhood #church #complete #each #every

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets. ↗

— Thomas More

#different parts #even #every #island #moon

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#god #good #man #manifest #most

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#cannot #care #did #even #go

These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies.” “Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic. ↗

— Richard K. Morgan

#men

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#comfortable #i #jew #worshipping