Ancestor worship Quote by E.L. Doctorow

“It is not the rituals of worship that please the gods.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.”

— Elizabeth George

“When Christianity proscribed the public exercise of the ancient worships, the partisans of the latter were compelled to meet in secret for the celebration…

— Éliphas Lévi

“Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.”

— Joseph Campbell

“beyond all the obvious ways of testing the truth of Orthodox doctrine – conformity with the sacred Scriptures, with the witness of the Holy…

— Andrew Louth

“And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.”

— Tom Cheetham

“The worship of power is an old religion.”

— George Santayana

“Worship is a vigorous act of reordering our desires in the light of God's burning desire for the wellness of all creation.”

— Ellen F. Davis

“Orthodoxy is life. If we don’t live Orthodoxy, we simply are not Orthodox, no matter what formal beliefs we might hold.”

— Seraphim Rose. Leaving the Orthodox Worldview

“The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known.”

— Erich Fromm

“the idea of `orthodoxy' or a `state church' is not a good way of looking at Judaism before 70.”

— Lester L. Grabbe

“Our modern worship needs the philosophy of the second glance, an ongoing attempt to make sure that all that we do in worship gatherings…

— R.C. Sproul