“Most atheists, if they worship anything, worship something which really exists but is not worthy of worship.”

— Andrew Collier (philosopher)

Source: "The Masters of Suspicion", p. 84

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British philosopher 1944–2014

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Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 18 (p. 401)

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

“If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

“Worship is transcendent wonder; wonder for which there is now no limit or measure; that is worship.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
Context: Cannot we understand how these men worshipped Canopus; became what we call Sabeans, worshipping the stars? Such is to me the secret of all forms of Paganism. Worship is transcendent wonder; wonder for which there is now no limit or measure; that is worship.

“Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite — but they all worship money.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 343

“This is the gist of all worship — to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva; and if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Address at the Rameswaram Temple on Real Worship
Context: This is the gist of all worship — to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva; and if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste, or creed, or race, or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples.