Quotes About Worship

The crazed Argentine was far more concerned with people worshiping him than protecting the faith.

If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.

W]e [also] create a … problem when we put people on a pedestal … . Whenever we make anyone – a minister, a teacher, an athlete, a genius, our ancestors, the Buddha – bigger than life, it's easy … to forget that the person you're discussing is a human being. … You'll forget that you're made of the very same stuff they are.

Blasphemy itself could not survive religion: if anyone doubts that let him try to blaspheme Odin.

We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

More love, more power, more of You in my life. I will worship You with all of my heart, I will worship You with all of my mind, I will worship You with all of my strength, for You are my Lord.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

Prayer means dependence on the Lord.

I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms.

Our obedience to God's commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness.

Today too, as at her origins, the Church... cries out:"Veni, Sancte Spiritus! Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love!" Amen.

What gods do you pray to?

The genuiness of our worship cannot be measured in decibels of sound, and although it is vital that we express our love for God vocally, He looks to see the evidence in our lives.

Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.

Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'

Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved

Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

love is the every only god

Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong.

I love God, and I'm a follower.