Quotes About Worship

According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.

God cannot be rejected without putting something else in his place.

John Calvin defines idolatry as worshipping "the gifts in place of the giver himself.

Romantics deified the imagination;

South Korea now has five of the world's ten biggest churches.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

The mainspring of sin is not that we have bodies but that we put things besides God at the center of our lives and turn them into idols.

When God gives people up to their idols, the result is always a reductionistic view of humanity—which ultimately unleashes harmful and destructive behavior. When we reduce people to anything less than fully human, we will treat them as less than fully human. When we define God as a something instead of a Someone, we will tend to treat humans as somethings too.

Happy are the people whose God is the Lord!" (Ps. 144:15).

If I had to have a religion, I should adore the sun, for it is the sun that fertilizes everything.

Creationism is not so much about scientific argument as a call to celebrate and serve God's good creation.

At the sight of their heroes and heroines, the crowd would turn demoniac. Some little gesture, either too pleasing or too offensive, would start it moving and then nothing but machine guns would stop it. Individually the purpose of its members might simply to be to get a souvenir, but collectively it would grab and rend.

Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?

Knowledge is the highest form of worship for a Muslim believer.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

It takes faith, too, and obedience, to conquer selfishness, that unsubmissive characteristic which, if unchecked, produces profound personal melancholy and solitariness. Selfishness is a form of self-worship, and we have been told, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me" (Exodus 20:3).

believing in Jesus Christ brings out the individual tallents of men in a way that is not otherwise possible, ... I percieve that those who worship the Creator are exceedingly creative.

The lies we believe become idols when we believe the false promises behind them.

Attendance on Sundays does not transform lives; Jesus within their hearts is what changes people.

reading Amusing Ourselves to Death in 2006, in a society that worships TV and technology as ours does, is nearly an act of defiance, one of those I-didn't-realize-it-was-dark-until-someone-flipped-the-switch encounters with an illuminating intellect?

wooden pews for worship services.

the idea of the black inferiority complex and castigated what he called the worship and idolization of the West and their ideas. The inferiority complex, he affirmed, was the greatest barrier to liberation

the whole point of worship is focusing on God—who He is, what He's done. Once I put my focus on the right person, I forget about myself.