Quotes About Worship

In other words, its character as resistance literature is actually secondary to, and derivative of, its more fundamental character as worship literature, as a liturgical text.

a good summary of Revelation's message: uncivil worship and witness: following the Lamb out of fallen Babylon into the new creation.

This is all birthed and nurtured in worship.

One of Cranmer's goals in writing and revising the Book of Common Prayer was to get Scripture into the ears of the people so that their hearts might be turned to God and their lives transformed by his love. Cranmer

the world can fascinate us so much as being near to God.… You cannot buy or wear or sell except that which is pleasing to the Lord. Jesus becomes Lord over your wants and desires. You love that which God loves and hate that which God hates…. If you can be fascinated

High voltage wires can electrify or electrocute. It all depends on how they're handled. You can't play games with 10,000 volts. And you can't play games with the power of God. Serving Him is serious business. Our carefree attitudes must go. We must carry out His work in His way, or His fire will consume us instead of our offerings.

Whether a man bows down to God or Mammon or to Cthulhu in his dark house at R'lyeh is no affair of mine . . . until he sheds one drop of blood not his own in his deity's name. Then God have mercy upon him, for I shall not.

I am continually amazed at the enormous compliment God gives us in hearing our prayers. It's simply astounds me that the greatest being in the universe wants us involved in placing his power where it's most needed. We have a solemn duty to apply that power and blessing others by offering heartfelt words to God in prayer on behalf of those who have needs.

Evangelism and stewardship, women's and men' ministries, youth ministry, Sunday school, worship, social justice ministries, and even pastoral care must be held accountable to this one question: how does what we are doing encourage and enable others to live lives of active faith?

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

true blessings come not from stuff or from satisfying the self; they come from submitting one's self to God.

Joining the corporate worship of the body of Christ requires that we allow something else—the good of the body—to supercede our personal preferences.

Lord bless this land, and all who inhabit it. Bless the earth. 'Tis borrowed from you after all. Let the work be fit worship to You. Grant us safety as we work. Grant us favor against any untoward spirits. Jealousy. Greed. Bigotry." Chance paused. "Even such as shadows my own heart. Forgive my tresspasses as I forgive.

Along with our shared love of pets, gardens, and food, we considered our degree of religious commitment—his to Judaism, mine to Unitarian Universalism—a common value. While dating, we'd sporadically attended each other's worship services; perhaps we both nursed secret hopes of enticing the other over to our side.

If the gods cannot recognize your names," she warned, "they will never hear your prayers.

A religious people is a people with purpose. So if the grain fails, or the aqueducts turn muddy, it can be Jupiter's fault, not his.

Let your living be a worship towards this existence. Before your two hands come together for prayers, extend anyone, a hand, to reach out to someone. Your worship then with two hands, should be that of gratitude, to have got the opportunity and the privilege to reach out. Heal-thy, heal-them, heal-thou. Let our blessings be act-ualised, get MickeyMized.

Start worshipping your parents and grandparents before you worship God. You will see a glimpse of divinity in that process. Practice worshipping your parents first and MickeyMize your chances for being worthy of higher worship. Share this to increase real worshipping experience and evolve.

We worship idols, photo frames, artifacts, etc. It's fine. But faith and prayer in action is service to this world in HIS name, try it's more divine. Don't simply idolize, offer all you have and reach out in H I S name and MickeyMize.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

EÄŸer ONA dua ediyor, ONU yüceltiyorsak bu, ONU uyutmak, sallayarak rüyalar?na dalmas?n? saÄŸlamak isteÄŸinden doÄŸamaz m?? Neticede bütün dinlerdeki ibadetler s?rf ÅŸekil, uyan?p da rüyas?nda bizi görmesi sona ermesin diye, Tanr?y? uykusunda sallaman?n bir ÅŸekli deÄŸil midir?

Beloved, our private times of prayer and our public prayer meetings may not move us, but they move the angels, and more importantly, they move the heart of God. Never measure your prayers by what you feel; when we pray in agreement with God's will, our "weak prayers" move the heart of God even if they do not move ours.

No matter how great the power is that the Holy Spirit releases through a prophet, we are to focus our hearts and attention first on loving, worshiping, and obeying Jesus.