Worship Quotes - Page 12

Joblessness makes you live without the fear of being fired

Life was given to us for an assignment

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 hold God dear in the form of union—as his own Self, or in samadhi. All forms of God are equally suitable for love. (165)

Love is the greatest attribute of God

The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men.

There is no love for God without love for man

Since in fact liturgical traditions, vestments, church vessels, etc., were immediately removed wherever Calvinism infiltrated or Reformed ideas even gained influence in the church's polity, the reaction which it caused in Lutheran areas was a conscious propensity for ceremonies. Henceforth, therefore, the celebration of an emphatically liturgical service was among the visible signs by which the Lutheran character of confession was demonstrated outwardly.

It is only when we meet the needs of the people around us that God meets our needs

Music enables an ability of divine expression transcending any words.

Service to humanity has no alternative

Here’s the inevitable truth: our hearts will always find something to worship, and that will motivate how we live.

You only honor and worship God when you do things without expecting anything in return

See the light in losing your employment

My heart filled with endless praise.

An effective life is not determined by how long you lived

The heart of service is grace of belonging.

Life shouldn’t be about survival alone but about living

Service to God is largely unacceptable without service to men

Propositions are true or false. Images are not.

It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected.

Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion.

We cannot glorify God when we refuse to celebrate others

Worship must occupy us full-time for a lifetime because our final destination is Heaven—it’s no place for part-time lovers!

Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.

Your calling should be your work

We glorify God when we appreciate humans

To live a selfish life is the fastest track to catastrophe

Dance while you have strength.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

You only get fulfillment when you work in your land of promise

Love is the easiest way of evangelism

If one were to worship the Soul (self) for even a moment, he will attain moksha without fail. Such is the elegance of the body-complex (paudgalik ramanta) in this world!

Everything in existence has a purpose

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

The death of any man will not remove God's throne.

Only people who believe in themselves are able to do exploits

Elohim! Elohim!Great is the Holy God.

Our attitude to others dictate God’s attitude to us

I believe we were created for ecstasy. And redeemed for it, at considerable cost. Certain vagrant moments are, moreover, clues to the narrative structure and texture of things.

Church was never meant to be a place for gods to gather, but for devils wanting to shed their horns for halos.

Yet if he would man cannot live all to this world. If not religious he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God he will have his idols.

Lord I thank you for the gift of breath, eyes to see, ears to hear, tongue to taste, nose to smell; mouth to speak, face to smile, voice to sing, body to dance, legs to walk, mind to think and hands to write.

Anyone who wants a Prakruti (relative self) that brings worldly benefits, they should worship Mataji,the goddess mother. And those who want Moksha [ultimate liberation] should worship the Soul [Real Self]. Those who want both should worship both.

You are moving in the opposite direction when your life is about survival only

Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.

For your life to count, you need to begin to live for others

Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.

The primary thing that determines how effective your life is how you carry out your calling

We cannot spend our entire week in pursuit of the world and then wonder why our worship on Sunday feels flat.

You need to combine your calling with your passion

Love is about sharing

Rejoice while you have breath.

Work becomes satisfaction when it is in the area of your calling

I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the worship of God, and have reason to believe that they are productive of much evil. Music as a science I esteem and admire, but instrumental music in the house of God I abominate and abhor. This is the abuse of music, and I here register my protest against all such corruption of the worship of the author of Christianity.

On God's calendar, there are no ordinary days.

We have come to worship things, status, fame, popularity, money, security. Anything that comes between God and ourselves is idolatry. Jesus demands Lordship over all such things.

I once heard worship defined as celebrating the availability of God.

Time is God’s given asset to humans

When the lyrical content is based on the word of God it becomes covenanted.

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