Quotes About Worship

Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others.

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.

Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.

When we forget that, we unwittingly reduce God's ways to our ways and God's thoughts to our thoughts. Our hearts become factories of idols in which we fashion and refashion God to fit our needs and desires.

Sunday worship services are too frequently no more than a communal version of such energy-boosting, performance-enhancing, or get-well morning exercises.

There is no forgiveness in ancestor worship, only retribution and eternal debt.

Do Eastern religions meditate because it helps them to perceive reality as they consider it really is; that is, in monistic mode? Or do they see reality in monistic mode because they meditate? Similarly, do western religions emphasize such acts as prayer and worship because they help the believer to see the reality of the theistic mode? Or do they tend to see reality in a theistic way because of the activities of prayer and ritual worship?

As if it had heard his thoughts, the dolphin said, "You love life, that is why you sought to flee from death to a place where there is no death. If you love life, you must keep worshipping the god of life with your body, which means you must fight to stay alive even when it looks hopeless. Give up, and life will turn its back on you.

Gods, if they're neglected, tend to fall asleep, but they never really go away.

I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.

Our malady is not low self-esteem, nor is it how we view ourselves; rather, it is our low view of God.

Everything in your spiritual life depends on the sort of God you worship. Because the character of the worshiper will always be molded by the character of what he worships: If it is a cruel and revengeful God, the worshiper will be the same, but if it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be transformed slowly, wonderfully, into this likeness.1

I can whine –or– I can worship!

We give them the fire insurance salvation pitch, and they buy into it, and then we protect them in here so that none of us has to see what's going on outside the gates. We're in here worshipping a Jesus we've made up, while most of the souls out there, right out there, are crying out for a Jesus that really exists.

too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.

The days are nouns: touch them The hands are churches that worship the world

No in-person worship anywhere in New York State. Epidemiologists and public health officials were now somehow on many institutions' Boards.

La iglesia no satisface expectativas, celebra misterios.

Drapacz chmur to po prostu katedra dla ludzi, którzy zamiast wierzy? w Boga, wierzÄ… w mamonÄ™.

Everybody goes to mass, buy nobody pays attention to the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

This was how God had intended it to be. A precious gift. A sacred oneness. I love you. He said the words in the way he held her, his rock hard arms so gentle they felt like air around her. I love you. His hands told her-not merely touching her, but worshiping her.

I can't just open myself up the way some people can. And down here, you're raised a certain way. You're taught to keep some things private, family matters especially. It's just the way it's done. Everyone worships the past but no one really wants to talk about it.