Quotes About Worship

Strive to make God almighty your priority. For, he will make you his own responsibility in return. Yes! besides, he will equally take care of you, just because you made him your priority.

You should praise God in season and out of season i.e. you've got to praise God in good time and bad time, in challenges and comfort. For, he (God) expects you to praise him at all times and never sometimes.

The man too lucid to worship will also be too lucid to wreck, or will wreck only his … rebellions; for what is the use of rebelling only to discover, afterwards, a universe intact? A paltry monologue.

Lord, give me the capacity of never praying, spare me the insanity of all worship, let this temptation of love pass from me which would deliver me forever unto You. Let the void spread between my heart and heaven! I have no desire to people my deserts by Your presence, to tyrannize my nights by Your light, to dissolve my Siberias beneath Your sun.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

Stari sufletesti conditionate? Dar de cine? De lume? Dar ea nu exista decat pentru servitori. Si viata este o realitate doar pentru oamenii dintr-o bucata, inchinatori inconstienti ai vesnicei prostii.

Ä°çgüdüsel olarak putlara tapt???m?zdan, düÅŸlerimizin ve ç?karlar?m?z?n nesnelerini kay?ts?z ÅŸarts?z ÅŸeyler haline getiririz.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

The most serious disadvantage a Christian encounters is that of not being able to serve consciously more than one god, though he has the latitude to adhere, in practice, to several (the worship of saints!). A salutary adherence which has permitted polytheism to continue, in spite of everything, indirectly. Without it, an excessively pure Christianity would not have failed to found a universal schizophrenia.

Invest them elsewhere; in any case, we do not serve the same gods.

How right it was to begin the day, as men once did, with a prayer, a call for help! Ignorant of whom to address ourselves to, we will end by groveling before the first cracked god to come along.

As all the other beliefs and practices assume less and less religious a character, the individual becomes the object of a sort of religion. We carry on the worship of the dignity of the human person, which, like all strong acts of worship, has already acquired its superstitions.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

It is a great gain to society to have two idols: in the competition of idolatries the true worship gets a chance.

Women will not suffer their idol to step down from his pedestal. They do not forgive the slightest pettiness in a god.

"Women," she said, with tears in her eyes, "can only love; men act; they have a thousand ways in which they are bound to act. But we can only think, and pray, and worship."

As natural as it may be to want to play on the winning team, the wish to secure divine favoritism strikes me as the worst possible reason to practice any religion. If the man who asked that question could not think of a dozen better reasons to be a Christian than that, then what, indeed, was he doing there?

Sabbath was not a burden for him, any more than it was a private day off that he could take or leave. Sabbath was who he was . It was his stake in the ongoing life of his community, the one set day each week when he entered into communion with God and his neighbor.

The wind smelled like the moon. I went up there so many times in the weeks that followed that I no longer remember which night it was that God finally answered my prayer. I do not think it was right at the beginning, when I was still saying my prayers in words. I think it came later, when I had graduated to inchoate sounds. Up on that fire escape, I learned to pray the way a wolf howls. I learned to pray the way that Ella Fitzgerald sang scat.

Tame worship is easier to agree on than any other kind, and bringing fire requires a lot more energy than simply showing up. When life is pretty good and church is pleasant enough, who needs resurrection?

AS IMPORTANT AS IT IS to mark the places where we meet God, I worry about what happens when we build a house for God.

Week after week, I was permitted to stand up in special clothes and talk while everyone else sat quietly and listened. Week after week, they heard the gospel filtered through my sensibilities. On Sunday mornings they sang the hymns I had chosen, and on Wednesday evenings they engaged the topics I had picked.

Justice for the Hebrews meant . . . making sure that all persons . . . can even worship any gods they choose [Katherine Patterson, "Metaphors to Live By"].

As I do, I'm reminded of textbook pictures I once saw, of ancient priests in the middle of their ceremonies, faces raised to the sun. They knew that was where the real power lay.