Quotes About Worship

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him. Rushing in and out of worship is wrong every time—there is always plenty of time to worship God.

My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace, Nor even blessing, but Himself, my God. Am I measuring my life by this standard or by something less?

Beware of outstripping God by your very longing to do His will. We run ahead of Him in a thousand and one activities, becoming so burdened with people and with problems that we do not worship God, and we fail to intercede. If a burden and its resulting pressure come upon us and we are not in an attitude of worship, it will produce a hardness toward God and despair in our own souls.

There are not three stages in spiritual life—worship, waiting and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs, we jump from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of Our Lord. He was unhasting and unresting. It is a discipline, we cannot get into it all at once.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

Paul said, "I beseech you . . . that you present your bodies a living sacrifice . . ." (Romans 12:1). What I must decide is whether or not I will agree with my Lord and Master that my body will indeed be His temple. Once I agree, all the rules, regulations, and requirements of the law concerning the body are summed up for me in this revealed truth—my body is "the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Your god may be your little Christian habit—the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes.

O Lord, explore down to the deepest springs of my spirit where Thy Spirit works, and read my deepest prayers I cannot pray in expression. Lord, touch my body, it is Thy temple, shine out in and through it, O Lord.

I must take time to worship the One whose name I bear.

Lord God Omniscient, give me wisdom this day to worship and work aright and be well pleasing to Thee. Lord, interpret Thyself to me more and more in fulness and beauty.

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

There are stages in life when there is no storm, no crisis, when we do our human best; it is when a crisis arises that we instantly reveal upon whom we rely. If we have been learning to worship God and to trust Him, the crisis will reveal that we will go to the breaking point and not break in our confidence in Him.

Lord God Omnipotent, how my soul delights to know that Thou dost care for sparrows and numberest the hairs of our head! Lord, breathe on me till I am in the frame of mind and body to worship Thee.

Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.

Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.

God likes to be played like a piano.

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?

Only Diety Except ALLAH.

God wants to hear about our cares, not because he needs to hear but because we need to tell him.

I have nothing against God. It's his fan club to which I take exception.

Look through the Bible and nowhere does Jesus say, "Worship me." His call to us was "follow me." There's a big difference.

The saints are in heaven, not in wood. — De morbis ex incantationibus et impressionibus

I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them.