Quotes About Worship

1Shout to the LORD with joy, everyone on earth. 2Worship the LORD with gladness. Come to him with songs of joy. 3I want you to realize that the LORD is God. He made us, and we belong to him. We are his people. We are the sheep belonging to his flock. 4Give thanks as you enter the gates of his temple. Give praise as you enter its courtyards. Give thanks to him and praise his name. 5The LORD is good. His faithful love continues forever. It will last for all time to come.

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So exploring the scientific and historical evidence for God is not only a cognitive exercise, but it's an act of worship for me. It's a way of giving the Creator the credit and honor and glory that are due to him.

At bottom, what God seemed to want was affirmation. Basically praise in every circumstance. Without it he could turn menacing in a hurry.

Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.

Political atheism is a distinctly modern phenomenon. No premodern atheist doubted that social life required belief in, and worship of, God or gods.

Almost everything that Jesus taught, all His ideas, had been set down before in the Old Testament. Then came the largest riddle of all. If Jesus were to return to the earth she was certain He would go to a synagogue rather than a church. Why could people worship Jesus and hate His people?

We believe on this earth solely in Adolf Hitler ... ," intoned Dr. Robert Ley to a reverent audience of 15,000 Hitler Youths. "We believe that God has sent us Adolf Hitler.

Wallace shared with the graduates, "In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Worship is what you do when you've heard Jesus speak. A worship life is what you live when you walk with Jesus.

The church doesn't lose its kids when they go to college. We start losing them in middle school. We lose children in the church when we send them out of worship to children's church or Sunday school. This is one reason why Jesus kept insisting, "Let the little children come to me."[222

It is more important that our churches have tables that are relationally correct than liturgically correct. Rules aren't "truth"; we don't follow out of slavish obedience to something absolute. We follow preestablished rules because we want to signal our love of community….

No part of the regular school day was set aside for religious worship…. Jefferson did not permit the room belonging to the university to be used for religious purposes.

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

God cares about where your heart is, where your treasure is.

God wants each of us to praise Him for His workmanship in creating us.

The realm of the unseen holds your secret hero identity. Being a hero is an act of worship. Heroes

All I know in love is how to shock people. To briefly worship, and then to destroy and be destroyed.

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.