Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.
Being is good, but getting rich is better. . . . If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.
You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.
Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name. Therefore, acceptable worship is impossible without preaching. For preaching is making known the name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known.
If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.
Worship is admiration becoming adoration.
The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should offer not what one has but what one is.
Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.
I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.
The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable.
Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect on Scriptures and the more I sense how God thrills to the adoration He receives from all that He has created, the more I realize He has given us the awesome responsibility of caring for His creation so that it can go on praising Him until the end of time.
The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things we never get.
Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.
I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.
Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.
The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works