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Quotes About Worship

sanctify" is qadash, and it means to "separate" or "make holy."6 In other words, we have to
~ Tommy Tenney
Primitive worshippers are always more than grateful when things go nicely right and very understanding when things go horribly wrong. They never blame their god for the bad times, in fear that he might send more of them, but they are always thankful for the good times. If only a few of them survive a major disaster, their god always gets the credit.
~ Unknown
And did she not have the courage to worship a man; had she chosen a woman.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
The Psalms put us in touch with our deepest emotions.
~ Tremper Longman III
We can't read the Psalms without an emotional response.
~ Tremper Longman III
Worship in many churches is a spectator sport. If we listen to the commands of the psalmist, our worship will radically change.
~ Tremper Longman III
if people live with a wrong view of God, the more religious they become, the worse the consequences will be, and eventually it would be better for them to be atheists. In
~ Unknown
They turned. In the middle of the square three black and white vulturine scavengers with a wingspan of about six feet were disputing the dried remains of a cat. 'What do you call those?' asked Stephen. 'Those?' replied his guide, looking at them with narrowed eyes. 'Those are what we call birds, your worship.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Yeah, that was how they rolled in Gotham City, the world's biggest cult, where everyone was brainwashed to worship Batman and hate anybody he hated. Anyone who didn't was declared criminal or crazy and ended up in Iron Heights or Arkham Asylum while Batman flitted around town, cosplaying and ego-tripping.
~ Paul Dini
Only when people are free to worship, create, and build, only when they can decide their destiny and benefit from their own risks—only then do societies become dynamic, prosperous.
~ Paul Kengor
The religious belief varies from village to village. Nearly all worship the cholera and smallpox deities, and there are traces of serpent worship.
~ Paul Theroux
She received it as a god is received
~ Pauline Réage
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.
~ Paulo Coelho
God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.
~ Paulo Coelho
We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.
~ Paulo Coelho
We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.
~ Paulo Coelho
Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.
~ Paulo Coelho
Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever.
~ Pearl S. Buck
And what was worship except trust and hope that life and death had meaning because they were created and planned by Heaven?
~ Pearl S. Buck
Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.
~ Hans Rookmaaker
You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art
~ Lamar Boschman
Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization
~ Pope Francis
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer