Quotes About Worship

Highlight – Genesis 24:3 Marrying Foreigners From this earliest period of Israelite history, there was an emphasis on not marrying foreigners. The reason had to do with religion, not race—in many cases foreigners were distant relatives, but they worshiped false gods. When foreigners were willing to worship Israel's God, they were welcomed (see the book of Ruth, for example).

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.

The thought of a king who can determine not only what life his people lead but even the nature of the God they worship makes me shiver.

God exists only if adored Time is nothing if one has not dreamed (Painting)

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.

For the one (what is dear to the gods) is of the sort to be loved because it is loved; the other (the holy), because it is of the sort to be loved, therefore is loved.

Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?

He is the God who sits in the center, on the navel of the earth, and he is the interpreter of religion to all mankind

Cuando se hizo al hombre partícipe de las cualidades divinas, fue el único de todos los animales, que a causa del parentesco que le unía con el ser divino, se convenció de que existen dioses, les levantó altares y les dedicó estatuas.

So, Euthyphro, piety then, should be regarded as a reciprocal exchange between Gods and humans.

God's purpose in giving you Sabbath spaces amid your full, productive life is to help you be uninhibited in your devotion, service, and worship of Yahweh. Margin keeps you from marginalizing God.

Because praying—reaching outward and upward to Him—is the way His passion comes down. Even

Nope, he penned these words of worship while sitting on the cold-floor, cold-food, maddening reality of Roman confinement. House arrest. Guards at the door, preventing his escape. When he wrote this glorious sentence, he was under a sentence himself, probably for as much as two years. Locked up. Locked down. Imprisoned.

Again, one of the qualities that makes the gospel so real and so great is that it doesn't eliminate our past but just so thoroughly deals with it. God forgives it. He changes it. He transforms all that mess into this huge mountain of grace that only takes us higher and closer to Him. So now, instead of being a reason for endless shame, guilt, and regret, our past is a reason for endless worship and free-flowing testimony.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. (Mark 12:30)

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having all our money.

The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God by analogy to principles and so worship Him in the form of Love or Truth. But the wises think the God not at all. They know that thought, which is finite, can only do violence to the God, who is infinite. It is enough, they say, that the God thinks them.

fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.

It is my opinion that the greatest absence in the church today is the fear of God.

If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. —A. W. TOZER (1897–1963)

Time with God will open up His ways. Reading books won't do it. Reading theology won't do it. Studying the creation won't do it. Going to church won't do it. Listening to religious music won't do it. Listening to great preaching won't do it. Even worshiping through hymns and songs won't do it.