Theodore Parker Quotes

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

Mans nature indicates that he was created for three things: To think, to worship and to work. But thinking is not enough. Men are made to worship also, to bow down and adore in the presence of the Mystery inexpressible.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

Religion is the pious worship of God.

He [God] just seems so man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It's human nature to need a religious crutch, and I don't begrudge anyone that. I just don't need one.

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

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

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

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

My family is very religious.

Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

I have always believed in God.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

I have a very strong belief in God.

He is a God.