Quotes About Worship

If we can't live the sacred journey with Christ daily and are not actively drawing others into that journey—way outside the worship center or sanctuary and outside our stained-glass or silk-plant ghettos—we can't expect to do it in an hour on Sunday morning or Wednesday night.

For many churches, as they seek to create comfortable environments in the form of worship services or small groups, have lost their ability to challenge people in meaningful ways. Challenge may be given from the pulpit or stage on Sunday mornings, but challenge is always given best in the context of personal relationships. We

Dog: A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship." AMBROSE BIERCE (1842

God inhabits the praises of His people. And when the King is present, all things are possible. So

if people left our services saying, "What an awesome choir" or "That's a great church," then we have failed in our mission. No, the only thing I want said is, "What an awesome God!" I

to think something is good, to do something is God.

My journey goes from visiting the house of God, which most of us do, to being a house of God, which all of us are.

Obedience is the ultimate act of worship. It is also an act of faith because it's an act of trusting love.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

How do you prove that you love God?

This is a book about worshiping the true God and letting the true God act in us. It tells us as plainly as possible that the true God is a God who cannot stop giving and forgiving, and that our knowledge of this true God is utterly bound up with our willingness to receive from the hand of God the liberty to give and forgive.

One cell in its unspeakable complexity would be worth the worship and awe of the entire universe. And cells were everywhere, their miraculous ness diminished only by their ubiquity.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

He attracted the eyes of the whole congregation by the fervency with which he sent up his prayers to Heaven.

Idolatria e' scambiare il mezzo con il fine.

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

YOU SHALL not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or sheep with a blemish or any defect whatsoever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Motto of the Benedictines

Spiritual aspirants must diligently follow the teaching. Practicing devotion to God has the effect of turning the mind towards the Divine and this leads to purity of feeling and thinking. Essentially, spiritual practice is a worship of the Divinity within oneself.

One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

The sleep of a wise man is far better than the worship of an ignorant one during the night.