Quotes about Worship
I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.
- Francis de Sales
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
- Clement of Alexandria
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
- Martin Luther
If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.
- Timothy Keller
This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.
- Shane Claiborne
The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
- Erwin McManus
What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.
- Timothy Keller
It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
- Alan Hirsch
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.
- John Milton
My television is the tabernacle.
- Mother Teresa