When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits of wandering and dissipation, they are difficult to overcome, and commonly draw us,...

We should know and celebrate God with our whole person. While too many Christians neglect to serve God with the mind, others cultivate only their minds and neglect the emotional aspects of worship.

… researchers argue that it’s of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating...

Don’t compare yourself to other Christians. Compare yourself to Christ. He is the one you follow. He is the one other Christians too follow”.

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

It’s not that we start with beliefs and doctrine and then come up with worship practices that properly “express” these (cognitive) beliefs; rather, we begin with worship, and articulated beliefs bubble up from there. “Doctrines”...

The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms.

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

(Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the...

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the...

Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord’s sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike...

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for...

If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you’re in the wrong calling.

God is not an audiophile demanding the best possible stage sound.

The glory of the New Covenant Temple is the glory of Christ Himself – a spiritual glory that is only obscured by outward, external, typical, ceremonial, and fleshly elements.

I didn’t just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.

She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord’s presence that I felt like an outsider.

Spending time with God is the greatest treasure.

God’s revelation… unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness – in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world...

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

It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world… then it...

You’ll never grab the wonderful with your feet on the ground.

True worship can only take place when we agree to God sitting not only on His throne in the center of the universe, but on the throne that stands in the center of our heart.

I am lost and found in You.

Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God...

And don’t waste time worshipping Harmony. Doing good was the worship.

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven — while Shea would still have a job leading worship.

The heart of a worshipper is a heart arrested and set free by the love of God.

He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.

In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero...

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...

There are many themes found in the Book of Psalms that are generally not found in modern music. These include the fear of God, the righteousness and justice of God, the sovereignty of God, the...

God’s anger is the toil and suffering of man. Man’s anger is the love and worship of his enemy.

…I put you on the pedestal – made you a saint – dare I blaspheme?…

The flow of the anointing oil provokes intense worship

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...

(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not wish to understand because one feared it, something to which one...

I have ascended to the highest in me, and look, the Word is towering above that. I have descended to explore my lowest depths, and I found Him deeper still.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren’t. Where they fail,...

Let us be so taken up with the knowledge of God’s goodness and the desire to fellowship with Him that our emotions are warmed and our outer man reflects great love. Although we must not...

All normative judgments about worship must be avoided. Attempts to use biblicism as a guideline, as we shall see, tend to be abandoned in the course of time or lead to biblicism of only certain...

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.

Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It’s dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that’s more than most of us want to deal...

We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.

He (Chuck Smith) was leery of music that moved the body more than the soul.

What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49)

God is not looking for incredibly high notes, intricate riffs or award winning ad-libbing. God is looking at the heart.