Quotes About Worship

JESUS, I am thankful that I can worship you right where I am. I will enter your courts with thanksgiving. I will kneel at the mercy seat and find forgiveness. I will call out your name in praise. Lord, I pray for those who do not have intimacy with the living God. You have already made the pilgrimage for them. Open their eyes to see that they can find you right here, right now.

And if there are gods after all, perhaps we should not struggle so hard to get their attention, if this is the attention they would lavish upon us.

What a horrible reason to shoot someone, as if any decent god gives a damn how he's worshipped, so long as it's directed heavenward with love?

Kids are among the most bored people in temples.

In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius...

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray.

Democracy is a form of religion, it is the worship of jackals by jack asses.

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

He is encompassed himself, in the steering clasp of hand on shoulder and scrubber-fluffed noggin bobbing in prayer to the gods of cock, filled with grace from the sacred font of the phallus.

There are people passing by in their cars unaware and unassuming but I'm praying they'll look over and watch me worship you.

We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.

There is an inward and outward state in every human soul, with the inward being im?n (the condition of the faith) and the outward being isl?m (the manifestation or practice of the faith). When the two come together inwardly and outwardly, the resulting balance is a truly beautiful human being, one generally called a mu?sin, one whose worship and character are excellent.

Imam M?lik said that to seek out Paradise is more than acceptable, though the motivation behind worship should ultimately be solely for the sake of God and fulfillment of His commands.

Tap?naklar?n ihtiÅŸam? ve Tanr? tasvirlerinin sanat?, 'humus' tabakas?ndan yukar?ya besleyici bir g?da ta??yabilecek olan 'kökler' fikrine izin vermez. Bu g?da tam da binalar üzerine bina, tasvirler üzerine tasvir ederek çekildiÄŸi düÅŸünülen s?n?rlar?n d???nda b?rak?land?r.

The ecclesial body was the sacramental reality to which the Eucharist pointed and in which it participated.

everything in the so-called world of nature is meant to lead us back to God. In that sense, created matter is meant to serve eucharistically. By treating the world as a eucharistic offering in Christ, received from God and offered to him, we are drawn into God's presence.

The person who prays and who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the word he desires to worship (in order to be more single-mindedly at the word's disposal) will select with great care basic works for his studies which will observe the so-called exactitude of scholarship without losing sight of the most important exactitude, namely, the ordering of all thought toward prayer.

theology, for Maximus, is Cosmic Liturgy.

FrumuseÈ›ea ca înzorzonare ÅŸi alunecare decadent?, sedus?, în puterea pl?cerii ÅŸi pl?cerea puterii, st? contra frumuseÈ›ii adoraÈ›iei ÅŸi a slujirii unicului Dumnezeu glorios.

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake.

Ask Your Church for Help Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. —James 5:13-15

If we want our worship, or attempts at worship, to mean anything, we have to strive to conform it to the nature and will of God, and not to the mood or taste of the century.

My position would be to see Jesus and Paul as people used by God to bring the monotheism and the moral message of Judaism to the world, and to teach the world that the God discovered and worshiped by the Jews was the only true God.