To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises.

When we lift our hands in praise and worship, we break spiritual jars of perfume over Jesus. The fragrance of our praise fills the whole earth and touches the heart of God.

According to your holy book, every single Buddhist, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, follower of various minor traditions or sects, those who do not affiliate themselves with a religious tradition and the approximately 2.74 billion humans who...

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which...

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

The most carefully crafted language in our culture tends to be poetry. And poetry at its finest moments subverts our best attempts at hiding from reality…The poetry of liturgy has just this power. The liturgy...

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a...

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God. One of the primary laws of human life is that you...

This wasn’t a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can’t keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

You don’t need to change who you are to praise the God.

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty...

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus

That girl has done things to your head.’He pats my back, ‘Don’t pretend she’s not crawling inside of yours.

we become like that which we worship.

Every source of blessing is a point of attack.

Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or some other icon of unchurchness. The problem is that they have been only...

Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely.

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools...

…but you – women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity…

If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one...

In spite of his painful encounters with the world and its problems, Solomon does not recommend either pessimism or cynicism. Rather, he admonishes us to be realistic about life, accept God’s gifts and enjoy them....

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Our worship of God is not a part of our lives; worship is our lives.

One of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous creations is his painting of The Last Supper. It is said that while Leonardo da Vinci was working on the painting he got into an argument with a...

Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.

Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I have been brought up, so to speak, under its shadow; and stared at...

At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.

True worship comes when we learn to close our eyes and focus only on Him.

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

A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of...

Your problems aren’t too big — perhaps your worship is too small.

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest...

Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.

We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.

I so often feel terrible that I am not offering the worship God is worthy to receive. My worship is so inadequate and so fickle. What I am learning is that God is receiving the...

Would a just God sentence a morally good individual to hell for never having heard of him? And for that matter, would a just God expel a morally good individual to hell who has heard...

The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things

In the old world, we tend to drift along, victims to our own ignorance of the fact, that we can have what we want in the New World.

When we dedicate our talent to serving a neighbor, it is possibly one of the highest forms of worship; something sacred transpires when we sacrifice our time and dedicate our God-given loves and talents to...

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Human” is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

Worship gatherings are not always spectacular, but they are always supernatural. And if a church looks for or works for the spectacular, she may miss the supernatural. If a person enters a gathering to be...