Quotes About Worship

Satan, he began to vehemently believe, would have approved of the thoughts and feelings he was having, and he started to think maybe Satan would be a more appropriate god, a power, for him to follow and worship.

In the seventeenth century Sir Walter Raleigh wrote that 'The art of magic is the art of worshipping God'.

The Christian worldview is liturgical as well as cerebral; it culminates with an everlasting crescendo of praise.

God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name.

Yet even Christians who are dismissive of art continue to use it. Doing so is inescapable. Every time we build a sanctuary, arrange furniture in a room, or produce a brochure, we are making artistic decisions. Even if we are not artists in our primary vocation, there is an inescapably artistic aspect to our daily experience.

Artists are called and gifted-personally, by name-to write, paint, sing, play, and dance to the glory of God.

Moses was a prophet, but the tabernacle needed an artist.

Angels have no interest in being worshipped themselves. They are totally absorbed with God, and all they would have us do is join them in adoring Him.

But though the mass Be holy, yet the first-fruits God most loves.

If I were called inTo construct a religionI should make use of water.

more in Northern Ireland. The church places particular emphasis on religious education as well as devotion, though

I, too, have to end up worshipping at the altar where God's name is truth.

The question, how the saints and the Virgin Mary can hear so many thousands of prayers addressed to them simultaneously in so many different places, without being clothed with the divine attributes of omniscience and omnipresence, did not disturb the faith of the people. The scholastic divines usually tried to solve it by the assumption that the saints read those prayers in the omniscient mind of God. Then why not address God directly?

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

Prosperity and comfort were joys everyone should have. But the pursuit of money for its own sake, at the expense of our self-respect, creativity, and compassionate humanity, was the worship of a false idol.

my religion was but a fragrance.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

I am not a believer in god nor do I visit temple.

You may go to the temple for mental peace. But you may be distracted there and forget the purpose of your visit. But this does not happen when you hear good music.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.

In all seriousness, I just think, 'Keep God first.'

Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.