Quotes About Worship

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

To do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people.

Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him and exalt him above all for ever.

This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

My soul doth magnify the Lord.

Introibo ad altare Dei [I will go in to the altar of God].

Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

I am the Lord thy God.

Chamdi is always uncomfortable when he asks for something. Each morning, all the children collect in this prayer room and, instead of praying, they close their eyes and make demands. Chamdi does not feel this is real prayer. To him, real prayer means sending a bright thought, like "Thank you" or "I love you", too heaven. That is prayer. The moment you ask for something, the prayer room becomes a marketplace.

The members of these communities know that they have passed on, and they think that part of their heavenly reward is to continue with their man-made forms of worship.

The important religious distinction is not between those who worship and those who do not worship but between those who love and those who don't.

but God would be much happier, according to Jesus Christ, if you were transformed than if you worshipped. He would be much more pleased by your loving than by your adoration.

Somebody said about most retreats that we begin them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and we end as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.)

Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.

How silly were the idolaters of old, who knelt before the clumsy wooden figurines of their own making! We are wiser now. We kneel before mirrors.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.