Worshippers Quotes:

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.119, Harvard University Press

topic: Pulpit, Worshippers

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

- James Russell Lowell

source: James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy and Other Papers”

topic: Idols, Idolatry, Worshippers

The heart of God loves a persevering worshipper who, though overwhelmed by many troubles, is overwhelmed even more by the beauty of God.

- Matt Redman

source: FaceBook post by Matt Redman from Oct 28, 2013

topic: Heart, Overwhelmed, God Love, Worshippers

Worship is more than singing beautiful songs in church on a Sunday. It is more than instruments and music. As a true worshipper, your heart will long to worship Him at all times, in all ways and with all your life.

- Darlene Zschech

topic: Beautiful, Song, Heart, Worshippers, True Worship

Worship is not music. We can certainly worship Him without musicians and without a song. And by the way, God does not actually seek worship. The Word tells us that He seeks worshippers. He's not looking for those who make the most beautiful music. He's looking for those who worship in spirit ... and in truth. Music is only one of the ways that he has ordained for us to express our worship. Yet too many worship leaders today spend more time honing their craft and planning / rehearsing their worship sets, than they spend on their face, alone in worship.

- Steven Rice

topic: Beautiful, Song, Leader, Rehearsing, Worshippers

Worshippers aren't made when they see the enemy on the run, put to flight. The truth is, worshippers of God are made during dark, stormy nights. And how we respond to our storms determines just what kind of worshippers we are.

- David Wilkerson

topic: Christian, Running, Dark, Stormy Nights, Worshippers

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Country, Art, Flower, Art And Music, Worshippers

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

- Albert Pike

topic: Father, Spirit, Worship, Worshippers, True Worship

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

- Pope Leo I

topic: Mind, Belief, Salvation, Worshippers

Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Sight, Offending, Names, Worshippers

Worship is a response to greatness. A man does not become a worshipper merely by saying, "Now I shall become a worshipper." That is impossible. That cannot be done. A man becomes a worshipper when he sees something great that calls forth his admiration or his worship. That is the only way worshippers are made. Worship answers to greatness.

- Tom Wells

source: Tom Wells (1985). “A vision for missions”, Banner of Truth

topic: Greatness, Men, Done, Worshippers

Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.

- Andrew Jackson

topic: Cutting, Hands, Gold, Deposits, Worshippers

Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.

- Akbar

topic: Destiny, Hypocrisy, India, Worshippers

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

- Benjamin F. Wade

topic: Power, Sycophants, Worshippers

As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are really worshipping, whether in the temple, in the image, or in the temple of their own bodies. First know for certain what they are doing - which more than ninety per cent of the revilers are thoroughly ignorant of - and then it will explain itself in the light of the Vedantic philosophy.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1740, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Philosophy, Light, Ignorant, Worshippers, Idol Worship

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Religious, Taken, People, Worshippers, Religious Community

I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is.

- Marilyn Manson

topic: Tired, Successful, People, Worshippers

We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism.

- Richard T. Ely

source: "Socialism: An Examination of Its Nature, Its Strength and Its Weakness, With Suggestions for Social Reform". Book by Richard T. Ely, 1894.

topic: Attitude, Class, Radicalism, Worshippers

Music is a tool. Lighting is a tool. Power point is a tool. Getting those things right is not the goal. God is the goal. Those are just tools. And we can real easily turn into worshippers of all the tools, rather than remembering that this is simply a tool to get the job done which is to help connect people with God and to help inspire people.

- Lincoln Brewster

topic: Jobs, Real, People, Worshippers, Get The Job Done

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

- William Robertson Smith

source: William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

topic: Sacred, Essentials, Ancient, Worshippers, Binding

The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3690, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Idols, Doe, Body, Worshippers, Idol Worship

This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their mortality and to convince them that the afterlife itself is under the personal management of the particular gods they are promoting. The self-protective urges of their worshippers will do the rest.

- Desmond Morris

topic: Powerful, Self, Afterlife, Worshippers

Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal

- Tom Araya

topic: Thinking, Next, Facts, Worshippers

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

- E. M. Forster

source: E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

topic: Lying, Suffering, Atheism, Worshippers

...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,—the champion of the storm!— Then I feel envy for immortal words, The rush of living thought; oh! then I long To dash my feelings into deathless verse, That may administer to unborn time, And tell some lofty soul how I have lived A worshipper of Nature and of Thee!

- Robert Montgomery

topic: Nature, Ocean, Sky, Worshippers

There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper.The second-and perhaps even more important- is a good tune..with a simple popular melody.

- John Betjeman

topic: Simple, Hymns, Two, Worshippers

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

- Walter Scott

topic: Nature, Poet, Celebrate, Worshippers

Being bodiless, God is nowhere, but as God He is everywhere. If there were a mountain, a place or any part of Creation where God was not, then He would be found to be in some way circumscribed. So He is everywhere and in everything. In what way is this so? Is He contained not by each part but by the whole? No, because then that would be a body. He embraces and encompasses everything, and is Himself everywhere and also above everything, worshipped by true worshippers in His Spirit and Truth.

- Gregory Palamas

topic: Christian, Mountain, Would Be, Worshippers

The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Heart, House, Darkness, Worshippers

There cannot be two almighty beings in this world. [Imagine having] two or three Gods; one will create the world, another says, "I will destroy the world." It [can] never happen. There must be one God. The soul attains to perfection; [it becomes] almost omnipotent [and] omniscient. This is the worshipper. Who is the worshipped? He, the Lord God Himself, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient, and so on. And above all, He is Love. How is [the soul] to attain this perfection? By worship.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

topic: Two, Perfection, Soul, Omnipotent, Omniscient

I think war is just part of human nature. And I’m fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn’t make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I’m a Nazi, how come I married a woman who’s half Jewish?

- Ozzy Osbourne

source: Ozzy Osbourne (2009). “I Am Ozzy”, p.220, Hachette UK

topic: War, Mean, Dark, Worshippers

There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Promise, Secret, Deities, Worshippers, Raw Emotion

A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, 'O' God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee'?

- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

topic: Prayer, Night, Long, Worshippers, All Night

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

- David Wilkerson

source: David Wilkerson (1982). “Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately?”, Revell

topic: Spiritual, Vocabulary, Desire, Worshippers

He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of the worshipper.... William Kent, during Muir’s life, paid him a rare tribute in giving to the nation a park of redwoods with the understanding that it should be named Muir Woods. But the nation owes him more. His work was not sectional but for the whole people, for he was the real father of the forest reservations of America.

- Robert Underwood Johnson

topic: Father, Real, America, Worshippers, Redwoods

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Light, Tradition, Crime, Worshippers

The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

- Clarence Day

source: Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

topic: Energy, Fields, Certain, Worshippers

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.272, Cengage Learning EMEA

topic: Art, Grief, Idols, Worshippers

Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.

- William Blake

source: William Blake, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi (1998). “Milton a Poem, and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel, On Homers Poetry, [and] On Virgil, Laocoön”, p.221, Princeton University Press

topic: Jesus, Father, Son, Worshippers

Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?

- David James Duncan

source: David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.23, Triad Institute, Inc.

topic: Thinking, Honor, Sun, Worshippers

Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

- George Eliot

topic: Love, Men, Soul, Worshippers, Grappling

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

topic: Race, Order, Should Have, Worshippers

NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil.

- Marilyn Manson

topic: Devil, Worship, Satan, Worshippers

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

- Marilyn Manson

topic: People, Devil, Want, Worshippers, Great Philosophers

I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.

- Tairrie B

topic: Jesus, Juxtaposition, Freak, Jesus Freak, Worshippers

I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.

- Mike Vallely

topic: Powerful, Who I Am, Ideas, Worshippers, Really Powerful

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

- Roger Williams

source: Source: www.libertymagazine.org

topic: Hurt, Law, Worship, Worshippers

Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of their God on Earth, the Pope, that what they admire, is after all, but the caricatured head-dress, the Amazon-like helmet of Pallas Athene, the heathen goddess Minerva! In fact, there is scarcely a rite or ceremony of the christian Church that does not descend from Occultism.

- H. P. Blavatsky

topic: Christian, Eye, Religion, Minerva, Helmet

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.255

topic: Fashion, Sacrifice, Shade, Ostentation, Worshippers

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2070, e-artnow

topic: Running, Tired, Humble, Craze, Prometheus

Scary rock n' roll bands had all the devilish imagery. But at the same time, it's not because they were devil worshippers, they were saying that society is run by devils. It was human society that created these things, they become the devils. This is what you worship. This money is what you worship. This idea is what you worship.

- Immortal Technique

topic: Running, Rocks, Ideas, Worshippers