The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.
We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.
Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.
Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.
God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
Mission exists because worship doesn't.
The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship,
It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.
Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. "In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."
Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.
In Christianity, it's very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, 'God is love'. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example.
When you recognize God as Creator, you will admire Him. When you recognize His wisdom, you will learn from Him. When you discover His strength, you will rely on Him. But only when He saves you will you worship Him.
Worship is the thank you that can't be silenced
The worship of safety emasculates greatness.
It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.
Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.
Worship the spirit of criticism.
God is seeking those who hear His call to a life of worship. Those who heed are those who will walk in His presence. They will know Him intimately as He will manifest Himself to them.
The evil doers, the ignorant, the lowest persons who are attached to demonic nature, and whose intellect has been taken away by Maya do not worship or seek Me.
The child learns to worship money and the things which money can buy; he admires cruelty and cunning, rather than Sympathy and Love. So, the Home, the School and the Society have to rise and take up this challenge posed to the future of this great land.
The genuine are placed in His Treasury, while the counterfeit are thrown away. The counterfeit are thrown out of the True Court - unto whom should they complain? They should worship and follow the True Guru - this is the lifestyle of excellence.
The devotee keeps his Beloved clasped tightly to his heart. The fools perform devotional worship by showing off; they dance and dance and jump all around, but they only suffer in terrible pain.
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
Singing is as much an act of worship as is prayer.
The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.
The Lord is the Lover of His devotees; He inspires them to perform devotional worship. True devotional worship consists of eliminating selfishness and conceit from within.
The Lord has saved me; I have met the True Guru. He has implanted devotional worship of the Lord's Name, night and day.
I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.
Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.
Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
I'm a Frisbeetarian. We worship frisbees. We believe when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.
Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.
A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.
The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.
The question isn't 'Do we worship?' The question is 'Who (or what) do we worship?'
Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?
A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.
We worship God, but have no faith in the workings of God's laws of love. The world awaits the living of the law of love, which will reach the divine within all human beings and transform them.
At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.
To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with "It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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!
Even touching Erdogan is a form of worship,
Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
Some people are more expressive in worship. Some people more subtle and it's all good
Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.
Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils
A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.
As created beings, angels are not to be worshipped, glorified, or adored in and of themselves. The angels were created to worship, glorify, adore, and obey God.
if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.
False values begin with the worship of things.
To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.
Worship the Silent Space in you.
Worship With Your Vote.
For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.
And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.
In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.
When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God really. You're doing it for yourself, because that's what makes God happy. Amen?
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything.
I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.
A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.