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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.

— Annie Besant

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.

— Brendan Myers

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

— Pope Francis

I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.

— Michael W. Smith

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

— Bodhidharma

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

— Swami Vivekananda

There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.

— Erwin McManus

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

— Richard Burton

✗Opposing Perspectives

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

— Arthur C. Clarke