What is worship?

Worship

Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity. The word is derived from the Old English worthscipe, meaning worthiness or worth-ship — to give, at its simplest, worth to something.

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Famous quotes containing the word worship:

    With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)