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But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

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

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

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood - both its power and those who bear it.

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

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.

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

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.

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