Quotes About Worship

The ancient Babylonians and Assyrians worshiped a goddess mother, and son, who was represented in pictures and in images as an infant in his mother's arms (see Fig. No. 18). Her name was Mylitta, the divine son was Tammuz, the Saviour, whom we have seen rose from the dead.

The Church, at an early date, selected the heathen festivals of Sun worship for its own, ordering the birth at Christmas, a fixed time, and the resurrection at Easter, a varying time, as in all Pagan religions; since, though the Sun rose directly after the vernal equinox, the festival, to be correct in a heathen point of view, had to be associated with the new moon." [496:5]

There is a third way to understand the church, which combines what is true in both false images, and which recognizes that we have a responsibility both to worship God and to serve the world. This is the double identity of the church (or incarnational Christianity). By its "double identity" I mean that the church is a people who have been both called out of the world to worship God and sent back into the world to witness and serve.

John Calvin says, "No one gives himself freely and willingly to God's service unless, having tasted his fatherly love, he is drawn to love and worship him in return.

But we can never change enough to impress God. And here's the reason: trying to impress God, others, or ourselves puts us at the center of our change project. It makes change all about my looking good. It is done for my glory. And that's pretty much the definition of sin. Sin is living for my glory instead of God's.

Our prayers are not limited to God's sovereignty, but the ultimate expression of it

Seeing God as our Father radically changes your attitude to religious duties. It turns religion into relationship.

May heaven be in my heart by faith, and may my heart be in heaven by spiritual meditation.

Anubis – A god with a man's body and the head of a dog or jackal.

What a strange god to worship. I'm sure he's great at answering your prayers, as long as you want a stick fetching or a cat chasing away.

man and woman might not forget that their ultimate happiness would not be found in the fruit of the field, but in relationship with God, which is the fruit of worship and prayer.

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

I'm not obsessed with angels but I do adore angels.

I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow.

We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

January 29 Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful. Name all the fine things you possess, all the wonderful things that have happened to you, and thank God for them. Make that your prayer.

Whenever we make an idol of anything, we presuppose that it has the power to give life. We confuse something given by God as a means of life with its being the source and fulfillment of life. False worship is so dangerous because it witnesses to human attention and energy being directed in ways that are bound to lead to mutual harm.

Idols evoke worship in us because we think they can save us from life's contingencies, mysteries, and finitude. Put another way, we make idols of all sorts of things—the stock market, a job, superstar athletes and performers, our families—because we think that by giving our allegiance to them we will make our lives secure and complete.

When we become a Sabbath people, we give one of the most compelling witnesses to the world that we worship a God who desires our collective joy and good. We give concrete expression to an authentic faith that is working to deflate the anxious and destructive pride that supposes we have to 'do it all' by ourselves and through our own effort.

The Bible says, For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God (1 Cor. 14:2). By speaking in tongues, you speak directly to God, bypassing all human reasonings.

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

The Holy Guide reminded him that in Islam labor was a form of prayer.

Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.