worship (n.)
- admiration
- adoration
- affection
- agape
- apotheosis
- appreciation
- approbation
- approval
- ardor
- attachment
- awe
- charity
- conformity
- consideration
- courtesy
- cultism
- deference
- deification
- desire
- devotedness
- devotion
- devoutness
- dote
- dutifulness
- duty
- esteem
- estimation
- faith
- faithfulness
- fancy
- favor
- fervor
- flame
- fondness
- heart
- homage
- honor
- idolatry
- idolization
- lasciviousness
- libido
- like
- liking
- love
- lovemaking
- observance
- passion
- pietism
- piety
- piousness
- popularity
- prestige
- prize
- regard
- religion
- religionism
- religiousness
- respect
- revere
- reverence
- sentiment
- sex
- shine
- theism
- treasure
- truelove
- uxoriousness
- value
- veneration
- weakness
- yearning
worship (v.)
He wales a portion with judicious care;
And "Let us worship God," he says with solemn air.
The heart ran o'er
With silent worship of the great of old!
The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule
Our spirits from their urns.
Kings are like stars,—they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean
Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see,
So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion,
Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee.
As still to the star of its worship, though clouded,
The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea,
So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded,
The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.
Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.
When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
