Robert Sheckley Quotes

Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff

[Worshipping God] is like fellating someone who intermittently stubs fags out on your head for no good reason. And we all know how unsatisfying that can be.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.

And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.

Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?

To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

Father Mapple paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

Religion is the pious worship of God.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

The Christian is an idol breaker.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.

To be worshiped is not freedom.