Worship Quotes - Page 6

Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship

A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ‘O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee’?

History should be studied but not worshipped.

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

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.

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

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.

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.

It’s not the art, it’s the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it’s organic; it’s relational.

You haven’t prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

Music; worship and prayer to God.

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.

We do not need them. They would hinder rather than help our praise. Sing unto him. This is the sweetest and best music. No instrument like the human voice. What a degradation to supplant the intelligent song of the whole congregation by the theatrical prettiness of a quartet, bellows, and pipes! We might as well pray by machinery as praise by it.

You don't need to change who you are to praise God.

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.

Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.

At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.