Quotes About Worship

Where women are honored, there the gods are pleased.) —Manusmriti 3/56, 100 CE

Adoration is a powerful intoxicant.

Like when she told me in all of human history, three things never went out of style. Graffiti, keep-out signs, and statues of ourselves. She'd use this rule to explain human nature: we desecrate in protest, we're afraid of people taking our stuff, and we worship ourselves.

Hero-cults complicate everything in a Sacred Band.

Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.

God Gives Birth To gods!

Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also" (1 Corinthians 14:13-15).

Yâdâh is not constrained to a particular time in history. Instead, the people of God will yâdâh for all eternity. Forever and ever.

from the 680s onwards references to a cult of religious images; such images had long existed too, but from now on they were regarded by many in a new way, as windows into the holy presence of the saint (or of Christ) depicted in them.

Latria (adoration) is the worship and homage that is rightly given only to God. Dulia (veneration, devotion), by contrast, is the recognition and honor rightly evoked by excellence observed in created persons.

Why stash little ones away in a nursery downstairs with volunteers, who are hard to recruit and who themselves then miss the service, when they can actually be part of God's people in worship? This can make it hard sometimes when children are acting up. But it keeps families together.

Choose to trust God and to be at peace. Replace panic with praise and worry with worship.

Give me the lowest place: not that I dare Ask for that lowest place, but Thou hast died That I might live and share Thy glory by Thy side. Give me the lowest place: of if for me That lowest place too high, make one more low Where I may sit and see My God and love Thee so.

Christmastide - 1830-1894 Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas, Star and Angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead, Love Incarnate, Love Divine; Worship we our Jesus: But wherewith for sacred sign? Love shall be our token, Love be yours and love be mine, Love to God and all men, Love for plea and gift and sign.

Mjafton vetëm tu hedhësh nga një vështrim serioz dhe të ëmbël, katedralja e erotikës, para së cilës ata bien në gjunjë...

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.

Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the gods of that family. The cult was handed down from father to son, from generation to generation, and could not be lost without condemning the whole series of ancestors to eternal misery.

I argue that although the term Shinto scarcely appears, we can identify Shinto's institutional origins in the late seventh- and early eighth-century coordination of Kami worship, regarded as embodying indigenous tradition, by a government ministry following legal mandates.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued.

… the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.