Quotes About Worship

it's usually the day-to-day trials and worries that can be the hardest to shake off. I am forever learning how to run toward and get under the shadow of His wing. For me the way I find my way back to Him is through worship. When I begin to worship God in the midst of heartache or circumstances I don't understand, my perspective changes. Basically, this is how I am able to fix my eyes on Jesus, who is the author and perfecter of my faith (see Heb. 12:2).

I learned much later to worship her, just as I learned to delight in cleanliness, knowing, even as I learned, that the change was adjustment without improvement.

When I learned how repulsive this disinterested violence was, that it was repulsive because it was disinterested, my shame floundered about for refuge. The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love. It was a small step to Shirley Temple. I learned much later to worship her, just as I learned to delight in cleanliness, knowing, even as I learned, that the change was adjustment without improvement.

To fear God simply means to take God seriously, as opposed to taking God casually.

Is your heavenly Father getting your best, or is He being forced to settle for leftovers? Leftover time. Leftover service. Leftover money.

behind every idol is a demon. Someone may say, "Well, that's just an Old Testament problem." No, it's a New Testament problem too:

An idol is that thing you ultimately count on for your provision, direction, and satisfaction.

Dios merece ser el primero. La oración del reino tiene tanta consideración del Rey, que acude a Él primero.

Al orar, Ana le mostró a Dios lo que ganaría si respondía su oración. Se enfocó en Él, en cómo se favorecería su reino y sería glorificado su nombre. Ese es un corazón sometido a Dios.

Men, you don't have to curse God openly to despise Him. All you need to do is tell Him that you don't think much of Him by giving Him your leftovers.

Ahora bien, debes saber que cuando la Biblia menciona que alguien se arrodilló, significa que ese tiempo de oración era en serio.

Praise for Kingdom

We do not need such things to help us to see God," I countered. "We have His Word, and that is enough.

From where I stand...you're the same as that idol you worship. Completely hollow.

Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams" (1 Sam. 15: 22).

God is looking for righteousness over ritual. He wants our lives and our hearts and our actions. Jesus warned us that, "These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me" (Matt. 15: 8).

Synagogue leaders have yet to realize that the synagogue has once again become essentially a house of prayer. Many of the alternative synagogue structures that are emerging—primarily led by young people—are built solely around prayer services. Instead of accepting this

A culture finds the gods it needs

Right worship, the kind that is pleasing to God, acknowledges the grace that is in Jesus Christ not only with our lips but also with our lives. Christ's own sacrifice makes possible the right kind of offering and proper worship: the sacrifice of the whole of our lives, a thanksgiving existence that proceeds from a mood of gratitude. Worship

The distinct experiential end in question in the church, communion with God and others, neither justifies nor fits many marketing means. The increase of the kingdom of God owes more to the work of the Spirit than to Madison Avenue.

For many viewers, though, the most memorable part of the parade was the very first float. Anointed "God's Float" by its creators, it consisted of a replica of a house of worship with large photos of churches and synagogues arrayed along the sides. Two phrases appeared in grand Gothic script at each end: "Freedom of Worship" and "In God We Trust."5

It has been said that there are two great Commandments—one is to love God, and the other to love your neighbor," Franklin D. Roosevelt noted soon after its creation. "The two particular tenets of this new organization say you shall love God and then forget your neighbor." Off the record, he joked that the name of the god they worshiped seemed to be "Property.

no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever … nor shall … suffer on account of his religious opinions … but all men shall be free to profess … their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

In the mind of the kid in skinny jeans leading the worship band, there isn't a large enough gap between holiness and sinfulness, truth and error, demons and angels, or heaven and hell.