Worship Quotes - Page 3

Twilight of the idols, it cursed from the worship of the extinguished candles.

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

here is nothing which any way pertains to the the worship of God left to the determination of human laws, besides the mere circumstances, which neither have any holiness in them, forasmuch as they have no other use and praise in sacred than which have in civil things, nor yet were particularly determinable in Scripture.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

You can only reach God through His creation

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

When the lyrical content is based on the word of God it becomes covenanted.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.

If they can worship a weird creature, which is even not existed; why I must not worship a beautiful one who is already here.

Worship is not love.

Life becomes pleasurable when you are moving in the direction of your calling

You can worship God twenty four hours a day but your destiny depends on the cards he lets you play

Celebrate people and love them even at their lowest point

You get answers and solutions to your problems when you begin to notice God

Our God is a great God. Indeed, He is the God of wonders.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

Work is an instrument through which you build yourself

Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.

Gain great values by converting your time

The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.

Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value

Never disregard people, regardless of their beliefs, because we all carry God’s likeness

The image of God is in every human

We all have the potential to be great and the seed of greatness

For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship.

God uses His people as instruments for breakthrough

We were so created to worship God that it is probably embedded in our spiritual DNA itself!

When you can prove your love for God by your service and attitude to others, your service has started

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.

All products come from the worth of time

We can never have Knowledge (Gnan) without worship (bhakti). Such knowledge would be considered shushka-gnan [unproductive knowledge]. It cannot be considered True Knowledge.

It’s not the art, it’s the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it’s organic; it’s relational.

The longing for Joy is in itself Joy. When he recalled when he had experienced Joy, he was, in that recollection, experiencing Joy anew, though he knew it not. Joy was not a state; it was an arrow pointing to something beyond all states, something objective yet unattainable – at least in our earthly existence.

Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes isweeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.

Everything in existence has a purpose

You have to discover your area of talent to be effective

The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was God"s desire at Sinai - thst everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other.

I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.

I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.

The liturgy is the place where we wait for Jesus to show up. We don't have to do much. The liturgy is not an act of will. It is not a series of activities designed to attain a spiritual mental state. We do not have to apply will pressure. To be sure, like basketball or football, it is something that requires a lot of practice--its rhythms do not come naturally except to those who have been rehearsing them for years. On some Sundays the soul will indeed battle to even pay attention. In the normal course of worship, we do not have to conjure up feelings or a devotional mood; we are not required to perform the liturgy flawlessly. Such anxious effort... blind us to what is really going on.We do have to show up, and we cannot leave early. But if we will dwell there, remain in place, wait patiently, Jesus will show up.

The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says that by reading a few short verses, we are like someone glimpsing nature through window from across the room. But by taking in more lengthy passages of Scripture, we are like someone who, intrigue, gets right next to the window to take in more of the view that it offers, basking in more of the arc of the whole the whole narrative.

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

Many believe that pagan worship is a thing of the past, but it is ever present—we have just given it a new name: pop culture.

We disqualify ourselves from communicating with God when we refuse to open our hearts to people

It’s either you are converting your time or not

Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship

Service to humanity is the key to gaining the Kingdom of God

Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as it participates formationally in Holy Scripture. I want to use the word 'liturgy' to refer to this intent and practice of the church insofar as it pulls everything in and out of the sanctuary into a life of worship, situates everything past and present coherently as participation in the revelation written for us in Scripture. Instead of limiting liturgy to the ordering of the community in discrete acts of worship, I want to use it in this large and comprehensive way, the centuries-deep and continents-wide community, spread out in space and time, as Christians participate in actions initiated and formed by the words in this book - our entire existence understood liturgically, that is connectedly in the context of the three personal Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and furnished with the text of the Holy Scripture.

Effectiveness of life should be measured by the results in the area of your calling or purpose

Sadly enough, some people are insecure in such a way that they cannot bear the thought of the sovereignty of God, the thought of His Being as greater than themselves. It makes them feel insignificant. But I know if I were to worship and obey anything, I would like it far greater than myself or any person or human system, preferably to the point that which it, perhaps, in all its majesty, makes me feel lost and even 'creatural' in my sheer humanity. Only this God - He who is great beyond human measure, yet still considers His creation precious - I find to be more than worthy of praise; otherwise, I bow down and worship nothing. And if the thought of such a superior and almighty God were to indeed offend me, I would have to remember that it is because I am only as significant as the things which I am idolizing, things which are ultimately separating me, the creation, from my original Creator.

It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God’s principles in them

Life is not about longevity but about effectiveness

Pour Into My Spirit...spread your arms around meconsole me and keep me close -wield your mighty swordto vanquish all my foes...

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.

A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your responsibility towards them? ... To assume that these visitors are really like you, that there are no real difference between you and them, and that the highest goal possible is that you and the other members of your congregation will become intimate friends with them and invite them into the private spaces of your life.

The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry for wonder may be compared to the break out of those springs from their constraints. Not everything they produce is healthy, but the overreaction of eliminating them is worse.

We are all qualified to fellowship with God no matter our situation or condition

The place where music and worship meet is like a divine mystery of sorts.

The only way to practicalize your love for God is by helping and loving others