To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church.… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The law of giving and receiving is fundamental, and relates just as much to God as it does to us. As we… — Selwyn Hughes Copy Share Image
To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“We try to live mindfully, being reverent in every aspect of our lives. We try to live like every minute is worship.… — Rachel Bauer Copy Share Image
You find the most in not any particular denomination specifically. It's the style of worship. So if we have what we call… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
We must believe in Christ and pattern our lives after him. We must be baptized as he was baptized. We must worship… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
“For many churches, as they seek to create comfortable environments in the form of worship services or small groups, have lost their… — Mike Breen Copy Share Image
“A place where the mind can attain stillness can be found in a great person who has a steady mind. By seeing… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Worship is about God in Christ. I suppose one could argue that if there were no people to do the worshiping, no… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Let us truly be a temple-attending and temple-loving people...We should not go only for our kindred dead, but also for the personal… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Now, we know this is what [H.P.] Lovecraft was into. Because he kept talking about how he wasn't interested in religion. In… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“That which we most desire, we worship as our god; for that which is chiefly desired is the chief good in his… — David Clarkson Copy Share Image
O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church,… — Nelson Searcy Copy Share Image
As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a difference between going to a service "for the worship" and going to a service "to worship the Lord." The… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshipped the sacred mushroom—the Amanita Muscaria—which, for various reasons (including its shape and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It is a kind of church, back in these last cores. It may not be your church -- this last one percent… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“What seems wrong to you is right for him What is poison to one is honey to someone else. Purity and impurity,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. "Temple" means... that a particular… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“the Greek word to worship signifies to creep like a dog upon his belly before his master; to lie low. How deep… — William Symington Copy Share Image
That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's… — Tertullian Copy Share Image