Quotes about Worship

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. Then they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves.

The realm of the unseen holds your secret hero identity. Being a hero is an act of worship. Heroes

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior!

Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

The first, the middle and the last thing to do is to pray.

Fools do not acknowledge God, the proud reject Him, the wise embrace Him, and the righteous worship Him.