Quotes About Worship

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

Is the primary motive behind your appearance to please God or to please yourself? Do you want to be charming and beautiful for God's glory in order to draw attention to Him, or for your own glory in order to draw attention to yourself?

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?

Mengenai kebutaan hati dan cara penyembuhannya, Nabi berkata, "segala sesuatu yang berkarat ada pengkilapnya, dan pengkilap hati adalah mengingat Allah.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith in him is unless he knew where his believers are

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if this is so, it follows that everything else that doesn't lift up the heart to God is not prayer. Therefore, singing, talking, and whistling without this lifting up of your heart to God are as much like prayer as scarecrows in the garden are like people. The name and appearance might be there, but the essence is missing.

I will say something still easier. Take a single flea or louse-since you tempt and mock our God with this talk about curing a lame horse-and if, after combining all the powers and concentrating all the efforts both of your good and all your supporters, you succeed in killing it in the name of free choice, you shall be victorious, your case shall be established, and we too will come at once and worship that god of yours, that wonderful killer of the louse.

At an earlier time there was no pleasure in the law for me. But now I find that the law is good and tasty, that it has been given to me so that I might live, and now I find my pleasure in it. Earlier, it told me what I ought to do. Now I begin to adapt myself to it. And for this I worship, praise, and serve God

In all of Holy Writ we find not a single instance of adoration of the patriarchs, the prophets, and apostles - much less of St. George and St. Barbara, who probably never existed, and of the other saints who created by the pope, like St. Francis and St. Dominic, about whom no one knows anything with certainty. But even if we were to concede that they were full of grace, they would still be unable to impart any of it to me.

For although greed of itself is idolatry, there was still the additional worship of the idols, or . Rachel

lest we be puffed up and make an idol out of our righteousness.

He who does not fear the truth should fear a lie and should worship an image or a phantom as God.

Whenever you are being praised, remember it is not you who is being praised but Christ, to whom all praise belongs.

He who has once forsaken God finds it impossible to abide by one definite deity, that is, in one religion or definite worship of God, just as there is an infinite succession of sins through unbelief, or the loss of faith. It

Hence every external worship and religion is dregs, which alone are left to be drunk by those who by it exalt themselves over others.