Worship Quotes

Here are some worship quotes and some sayings and quotes with the word worship:

“Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!”
~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“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.”
~ John Muir

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wonder is the basis of worship”
~ Thomas Carlyle

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship”
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator”
~ Mahatma Gandhi

“The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.”
~ P. D. Ouspensky

“Let’s face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?”
~ Bill Maher

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”
~Richard Francis Burton

“Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.
~ Aubrey Eben

“Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?”
~ Charles de Lint

“An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.”
~Sarah Ban Breathnach

“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

” The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.”
~Dorothy Thompson

“It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.”
~ Arthur C. Clarke

Theology Quotes and Sayings

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method.
~James Allen

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
~Jeremy Taylor

“Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.”
~Mikhail A. Bakunine

To study theology means not so much to examine exhaustively the work of earlier students of theology as to become their fellow student.
~K. Barth

“Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.”
~Voltaire

Theology itself is the science of God and his works and systematic theology is the systematizing of the findings of that science.
~Henry C. Thiessen

The essential purpose of theology is to study and bring into a fitting, consistent expression the Christian faith.
~Thomas C. Oden,

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
~John Polkinghorne

The word Theology means literally a discourse concerning God, but in analogy with other words, as geology, chronology and biology, it means the science which treats of God.
~James P. Boyce

Christian doctrine is the interpretation of the witness of Holy Scripture, coming from the witness of the believing Community.
~Otto Weber

Theology in the premodern period was always done on the assumption that the Bible was the written Word of God ~C. Pinnock

In theology the investigator has to do with God, Man, and the God-man
~William G. T. Shedd

Persecution

Some Persecution Quotes and Sayings:

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.
~Frank R. Wolf

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
~Buddha

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
~George Eliot

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
~George Eliot

The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
~ John Rawls

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
~Oliver Goldsmith

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
~ Thomas Paine

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
~ Joseph Addison

Do not expect justice where might is right.
~ Plato

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
~Frank Moore Colby

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.
~Isabel Paterson

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
Daniel D. Palmer

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
~Thomas Babington

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
George Eliot