Worship Quotes - Page 15

We are capable of anything and everything

Living a selfish life is a recipe for disaster

Reproduce yourself and fulfill your calling

I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.

Life is fulfilling when you are being productive

I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn't get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you have to view places of worship as free mental health clinics, in order to deal with the piety or hypocrisy. Parishioners are a wounded souls in various stages of healing, who are being treated by angels, with credentials from the University of Hard Knocks. Some take their therapy seriously and try to practice what they learned. Yet, others down the sacrament like a healing dose of Prozac, with no other effort required. When you keep this in mind, you won't feel so annoyed by the personalities you encounter.

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

There were thieves and hypocrites among us, to be sure, and true saints sprinkled here and there, but most were simply good, honest people who worshiped their Creator the best they knew how. We were a family.

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....

It is only when you understand that God is in everyone that you can appreciate and treat them differently

And morning came… It still comes. Our God is here, Emmanuel, among us, always coming towards us, always standing behind us, always standing up for us, always standing with us in solidarity in communion asking us to come with Him now as disciple, as follower, as believer, as a friend, as intimate beloved child of God, now and forever.

Do not restrain yourself from fellowshipping with people, regardless of their age or status

Love is about self-denial

An effective life is a life of purpose

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.

When you can prove your love for God by your service and attitude to others, your service has started

Our fellowship with God cannot be established when we don’t recognize His people

According to your holy book, every single Buddhist, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, follower of various minor traditions or sects, those who do not affiliate themselves with a religious tradition and the approximately 2.74 billion humans who have never had the 'privilege' of hearing the word of your Messiah will be sentenced to eternal damnation in a lake of fire—regardless of moral standings or positive worldly accomplishments. If this sounds like a fair proposition to you, then I bite my tongue—but I honestly believe that the majority of Christians do not agree with these doctrinal assertions, and instead categorize themselves as 'Christians' out of cultural familiarity or perhaps out of complete ignorance in regards to the topic.

When we are asked to show our love for God, our desire for him, when he asks us as Jesus asked Peter, 'Lovest thou me?' we have to give proof of it. 'Lovest thou me more than these, more than any human companionship, more than any human love?' It is not filth and ugliness, drugs and drink and perversion he is asking us to prefer him to. He is asking us to prefer him to all beauty and loveliness. To all other love. He is giving us a chance to prove our faith, our hope, our charity. It is as hard and painful as Abraham's ordeal, when he thought he was asked to perform a human sacrifice and immolate his son.

God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense.

God is very great.God is splendour.God is majestic.

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

All you do out of selfish reasons is a waste

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

This worship of Humanity, with its rituals of Liberty and Equality, always struck me as like being a revival of the ancient cults, in which animals were gods or the gods bore the heads of animals.

You cannot have a cordial relationship with God when you reject people

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

If you wake with a change of direction, deciding you hate who you've been,Remember, I loved you every yesterday as I will continue to love you then.Whomever person you become I shall worship and whatever path you pave I will follow,Because I loved you every yesterday and I will love you every tomorrow.

Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.

We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.

There is no interaction without God with interaction with men

God will never delay His promise.You have delayed Him.

To live an effective life, you have to turn your back on the things of the world

Love is your service to humanity

The way we relate with people is the same way we relate with God

You can only reach God through His creation

Never treat people with disdain, they all deserve your respect irrespective of their faith or religion

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with prideFor they are the players of harmony.Pilgrims, too, wear the imprint on their foreheads with prideFor they are the conductors of unity.And Lovers? Why, they are made humble by the imprint on their heartsFor they are merely the instruments of rhapsody.

We fellowship with God when we fellowship with people

Life is more than survival

Our fellowship is with God when we have mutual fellowship with one another

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

Purpose is the most important thing worth living for

David is called a man after God's heart. This can be a little confusing when you get into his story, because he's guilty of adultery and murder and cover-up. He's a train wreck as a husband, and he's worse as a dad. But his heart belongs to God. His whole life is immersed in the presence and story of God. What lights him up is to serve God and love God, and when he mess up—and he does—he repents and wants to get right with God again.

The nature of God is in every man

That girl has done things to your head.'He pats my back, 'Don’t pretend she’s not crawling inside of yours.

We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.

The God that is nearest to you in the people around you is the real one you need

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

God is a God of glory

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 may be compared to the break out of those springs from their constraints. Not everything they produce is healthy, but the overreaction of eliminating them is worse.

Quality Workplace: "a place of wor(k)ship is frequently equated as holy as that of worshiping

Having a job does not mean living

What a glorious God!

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 ran slated into real plans for dialoguing with God, what good are they?

I have a different GOD. I see it in the smile of others. My worship to make people happy. Love is my Religion.

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.