Kierkegaard on Truth and Worship

"If one who lives in the midst of Christendom goes up to the house of God, the house of the true God, with the true conception of God in his knowledge, and prays, but prays in a false spirit; and one who lives in an idolatrous community prays with the entire passion of the infinite, although his eyes rest upon the image of an idol: where is there most truth? The one who prays in truth to God though he worships an idol; the other prays falsely to the true God, and hence worships in fact an idol."

* Quote taken from Concluding Unscientific Postscript