Quotes About Worship

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

One of the best ways to practice the presence of the Lord is to thank Him all the time.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

Every time you open up your heart in obedience to God and worship Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, our beautiful Lord responds with His magnificent presence.

Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.

Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives.

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.

If we would talk more about the Lord and praise Him, we would have less time to talk about ourselves.

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

Anything that doesn't lead us to that - to better know and serve God - is a waste of time.

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

Sunday is the Lord's Day. Let us find time to be with him.

I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.

And then I saw the eternal stars twinkling down upon me; I knew their God was mine.

Help is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.

Taking kids outside to love God and nature is just about the most Jesus-y thing we can do. Jesus was nearly always outside with his disciples, or alone with the stars. To take kids to a beach, even one that is littered, it to bring them to an altar (a big one) surrounded by the blue-grey ocean billowing outward like a skirt, flecked with sunlight, like foil or diamonds.

Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.