I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife,...

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Charles Wesley’s hymns are forceful because they contain so many words which are physical: for him the life of a Christian was to be experienced in the body as well as in the soul.

What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism. Christians ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. The Christian is...

Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in...

God is magnificent. God is mighty.

We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.

The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ’s forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.

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

The yogi can relate to his Beloved in the form of a personal relationship-as a friend, a child, a spouse. He can cherish God in traditional religious performances–honoring saints, holy sites, and scriptures. He can...

Worship is not about having a fantastic voice.

But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man in generally worshipped as a god then he is a god. And if a god ceases to be...

When you know the knower within, you don’t need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don’t need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to...

In many (most?) churches there are programs and activities… but so little worship. There are songs and anthems and musicals… but so little worship. There are announcements and readings and prayers… but so little worship.

Leading worship is about a heart that craves to magnify the Lord!

When you or your closed ones face danger, you’d tend to get closer to God and be good.

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...

Daily services. Hourly services.

Prayer is an act of praise and worship to God

The Heavens declare the glory of God.Lord your unfailing love is as vast as the Heavens.

The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are behaving in a way that cannot be explained by what is already known, then another planet is searched...

…all this time I’ve been worshiping you – when other men wanted to kiss you, I’ve been offering the praise of my lips…

We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit.

Aeneas’ mother is a star?””No; a goddess.”I said cautiously, “Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus.”He thought it over....

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.

Repentance is the highest form of worship that a man can give to God.

We need both reverence and obedience. If we worship but do not walk in obedience and discipline, we are emotional, lacking self-control and godly character. If we obey God’s commandments but are not true worshipers,...

I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus...

When we find that God’s ways always coincide with our own ways, it’s time to question who we’re really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our...

Kuramy’Imana kwawe bingana n’ubusabana bwaw’Imana nuburyo ubohostemo.

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other but what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred for...

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it...

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith.

Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshipped the sacred mushroom—the Amanita Muscaria—which, for various reasons (including its shape and power as a drug) came to be regarded as a symbol of God...

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.

Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.

There is only one thing to do when you meet the Living God; you must fall on your face and repent of your sins. Repentance is bittersweet business; Repentance is not just a conversion exercise...

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.

Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others,...

{Debbs’ letter to ‘s granddaughter}I was the friend of your immortal grandfather and I loved him truly… the name of Ingersoll is revered in our home, worshipped by us all, and the date of birth...

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but worship is the greatest form of adoration.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

Start worshipping your parents and grandparents before you worship God. You will see a glimpse of divinity in that process. Practice worshipping your parents first and MickeyMize your chances for being worthy of higher worship....

History should be studied but not worshipped.

And morning came… It still comes. Our God is here, Emmanuel, among us, always coming towards us, always standing behind us, always standing up for us, always standing with us in solidarity in communion asking...

If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis....

The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it’s too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they...