Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who has become our food, our life, the manifestation of the Church as the...

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only...

God is the message owner; prophets and pastors are messengers. It’s happens on no account when the messenger becomes greater than the message owner! Let’s us avoid these “human worships”, confining our source of hope...

All our time spent making lists would be better spent painting, or writing, Or singing, or learning to speak stories. Sometimes I feel as though the Church has a kind of pity for Scripture, Always...

In the midst of the turbulence, lift up your voice and praise God. He will fight the battle for you.

Prayer is an act of worship to God.

We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.

My recommendation instead, however, is that we do not surrender questions of value, whether absolute matters of truth, goodness, and beauty or relative judgment of more or less truth, goodness, and beauty. With those questions...

While Johns (Martin Luther King’s predecessor as pastor in Montgomery) agreed with Dexter’s general disdain for emotionalism, he was very fond of traditional spirituals, believing they represented a part of their history they ought to...

The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, to whims, or to marketing strategies. It is the pleasing of God that is...

so that it pleases you. Make me one with you and also this land. Be with me.

I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.

If Jesus is not the focus, the worship is bogus.

Worship isn’t just a concept or idea— it is a real encounter at appointed times with the one true God in Christ through the Holy Spirit. If all the ideas about worship today can’t be...

The surpluses will have to be expended somehow, and trust the oligarchs to find a way. Magnificent roads will be built. There will be great achievements in science, and especially in art. When the oligarchs...

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses instead to traffic what can be found on any street corner or at the local mall. You may...

She was silent; the great wings almost stopped moving; only a delicate stirring seemed to keep them aloft. “Listen, then,” Mrs. Whatsit said. The resonant voice rose and the words seemed to be all around...

When every hope is gone, ‘when helpers fail and comforts flee,’ I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the...

…I’ve discovered why you fascinate – you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship…

Bad deeds are like obesity, to get rid of, one has to go through hard Worship

This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn’t just an expression of my feelings for him or a carnal, physical need—it was...

While we must not fall into the gnosticizing trap of seeing the world as only ideal, without any reference to the physical and tangible universe we inhabit, neither should we commit to crass literalism devoid...

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don’t see God, I’ll bow down before something else.

This perfect, eternal, Holy exchangeIs worship that satisfies both heaven and earth:

Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring...

When we worship, we ascend, when we ascend we gain revelation from God.

Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can’t contain Him. Isn’t it a comfort to...

Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.

He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not against him but FOR him, and that apart from or even counter to what man...

Of what did Job repent? His wonder was too small.

You haven’t prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

What seems wrong to you is right for himWhat is poison to one is honey to someone else.Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship,These mean nothing to Me.I am apart from all that.Ways of...

What we call the Lord’s prayer is actually the Disciple’s Prayer because It says “Forgive us our trespasses” and Our LORD Jesus had no sin. Selah

The dearest idol I have known,Whate’er that idol be,Help me to tear it from thy throne,And worship only thee.So shall my walk be close with God,Calm and serene my frame;So purer light shall mark the...

We live in a world that worships limitations

Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in Thy sight.

We all have different beliefs, ways of worshipping, and ideas about religion. I believe it is a very personal subject, and so everyone should respect each other’s beliefs. I simply live my life, and if...

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

You get to decide what to worship.

I do not worship a DEAD and buried Christ at Calvary. I worship a ressurected and LIVING Christ in Heaven! Jesus Christ is alive.

As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says, “Stop sinning,” it says, “Behold your...

The Sovereign LORD is a mighty KING.

It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on the Scripture, and other good books of divinity; because, although these may tend,...

The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry for wonder...

Choosing one thing over another doesn’t necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don’t want to...