Quotes About Worship

The Psalter occupies a unique place in the Holy Scriptures. It is God's Word and, with few exceptions, the prayer of men as well. How are we to understand this? How can God's Word be at the same time prayer to God?

Once more the daylight shines abroad, O brethren let us praise the Lord, Whose grace and mercy thus have kept The nightly watch while we have slept. We offer up ourselves to thee, That heart and word and deed may be In all things guided by thy mind, And in thine eyes acceptance find.

Even the most personal prayer no longer belongs to the individual, but to the church that gave birth to this person and through which this individual lives.

Herr, was dieser Tag auch bringt – dein Name sei gelobt.

Beten heißt Gott nahekommen und nahe bleiben wollen, weil er uns nahegekommen ist. Beten können wir nur, weil Christus da ist, in ihm hat unser Gebet seinen Grund, denn durch ihn haben wir Gott zum Vater.

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol

The Liturgy is Christ praying.

Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.

Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?

Let us not question whether God is there; let us praise Him that He is there.

Our worship of God is not a part of our lives; worship is our lives.

Our view of God determines how we live for Him.

The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.

Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.

If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

You want to wake the Old Gods, don't you?" "Yes." "Well then, go where the Old Gods are accustomed to be worshipped.

Complacency serves the old gods.

Then there was the even odder incident of Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who went out to meet Abraham, bearing bread and wine after the fight was over and the kings were all sunk in the slime-pits. Who was this priest of a forgotten worship whom Abraham honoured? I

An interesting note to this is, how a movie star projected onto the big screen is instantly adored and revered. This phenomenon works in reverse. Those who are held in high esteem are given gigantic proportions. Those who are given gigantic proportions are held in high esteem.

Nous vîmes sortir du monastère une nonne. Elle portait sur l'épaule gauche une planche étroite et longue, la toaca, et dans sa main droite un maillet. Pour appeler au culte, elle fit le tour de l'église, en frappant avec le maillet sur la planche, tantôt au centre, tantôt vers les extrémités, de manière à produire des notes plus graves ou plus claires, et à moduler un véritable chant.

46 Entonces María dijo: Mi alma glorifica al Señor; 47 y mi espíritu está trasportado de gozo en el Dios salvador mío. 48

Del Señor nos viene la salvación; y tú, oh Dios mío, bendecirás a tu pueblo. Salmo

I want to experience everything heaven offers, but most of all, I want to hear those never-ending songs again.