If it will give you any satisfaction in the end, I still care for you. Either there is no such thing as love, or the word does not mean what I have thought it to...

Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don’t. Everybody worships; it’s...

Much water has flown under Tiber’s bridges, carrying away splendour and mystery from Rome, since the pontificate of Pius XII. The essentials, I know, remain firmly entrenched and I find the post-Conciliar Mass simpler and...

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us...

True worship leaders worship the Lord at all times and use songs only when necessary.

If in some radical miracle, the Abrahamic God revealed his existence to the world, I’d accept the belief in the deity — but I still wouldn’t worship it. The jealous and angry God that justified...

All we need to release our inner God is a pulpit and an audience, both of which the Internet supplies in great abundance. Too bad that the corollaly to being in God mode in cyberspace...

The mind is more powerful than ever, and you have more control over it than you ever think.

The Lord our God reigns!The Lord our God is righteous!

Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. “Gone,” she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. “Just like...

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...

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual...

There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian...

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

before the nations.” We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.

Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!

I find that when people haven’t found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If they’re not educated...

Let My worship be in theheart that rejoices, for behold,all acts of love and pleasureare My rituals.

It’s easy to sing the song, but to pray the lyrics from deep within… that’s worship!

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

Mystical experience needs some form of dogma in order not to dissipate into moments of spiritual intensity that are merely personal, and dogma needs regular infusions of unknowingness to keep from calcifying into the predictable,...

old-fashioned” Christian heritage.

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.

If you make anything a higher priority than God, you are worshiping it and not God.

A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made...

…I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I’d have no art…

Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to give people newer and fresh rituals. A party of thinkers must undertake to...

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

We laymen may not be busier than the clergy but we usually have much less choice in our hours of business. The celebrant who lengthens the service by ten minutes may, for us, throw the...

The power of such a mountain is so great and yet so subtle that, without compulsion, people are drawn to it from near and far, as if by the force of some invisible magnet…this worshipful...

That which we most desire, we worship as our god; for that which is chiefly desired is the chief good in his account, who so desires it. And what he counts his chief good, that...

It is Satan’s constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and...

I believe we were created for ecstasy. And redeemed for it, at considerable cost. Certain vagrant moments are, moreover, clues to the narrative structure and texture of things.

We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.

Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting seekers into the church and its unique story and language. Worship should be...

Time doesn’t change anything; that is why we still worship asshole Arabs.

The main thing I worship is Nature !

So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there’s something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we say thank you to it, because it’s always good to say thank...

You say we worship the sun; so do you.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Worship is not about the posture of your body; worship is about the posture of your heart.

Worship the work not the God, because work is God.

A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact.

The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen; to pray is to see and breathe.

The requirement to obey and acknowledge God and Jesus Christ has caused the teachings of the Christian tradition to stray from morality to idol worship,creating a world in which a murderer can be forgiven and...

A suburban pastor maintained services appropriate for his respected, professional parish. His father, an excitable traveling evangelist, visited and challenged the congregation to confront pride and sing out loudly with the windows open. The next...

I come to you for help. We’ve been silent far too long. Many of you have turned your backs on Arman. Many never bothered to know Him at all. But Arman is the One God....

My heart is filled with profound gratitude to God.

Say what you will of religion, but draw applicable conclusions and comparisons to reach a consensus.Religion = Reli = Prefix to Relic, or an ancient item. In days of old, items were novel, and they...

Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.