Quotes About Worship

To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.

I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

We must have a deep understanding of Who is the source of our blessings and to whom all the glory, praise and honor belong.

All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Why does humankind love to seek the glory of one another instead of the glory of God?

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter.

Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.