Definition of Worship

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Worship

Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.

Honor; respect; civil deference.

Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.

The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.

Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.

An object of worship.

To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.

To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.

To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.

To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.

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Worship Quotations

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
Barack Obama

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mohandas Gandhi

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
H. L. Mencken

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher

Worship Translations

worship in Danish is dyrke
worship in Dutch is adoratie, aanbidding
worship in German is Verehrung
worship in Italian is venerare, adorare, venerazione
worship in Swedish is dyrka, tillbedja, avguda, tillbedjan

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