Worship Quotes - Page 35

• To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Religion, Church

  Samuel Johnson (1819). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.239

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• Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

  Laozi

  Time, Law, Listening

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• I mean there are a bunch of people who I’ve heard worship Adolf Hitler who don’t like me because I don’t think Jews have 14 inch fangs and drink blood and sneak around in bushes.

  Alex Jones

  Mean, Thinking, Blood

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• Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Children, Intelligent

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.976, Library of Alexandria

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• I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more excited I become about Bible doctrine. Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.

  William Lane Craig

  Appreciation, Reflection, Intelligent

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• I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.

  Mark Driscoll

  Hippie, Guy, Halos

  Relevant Interview, www.relevantmagazine.com. August 28, 2007.

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• There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

  George Gillespie

  Determination, Law, Way

  George Gillespie (1846). “The Presbyterian's Armoury: and II. The works of Mr. George Gillespie, with memoir of his life and writings”, p.52

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• The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. No less than His contemporaries in Palestine adored and implored Him for the favors they needed, so we should praise, thank Him, and implore Him for what we need.

  Pope Pius XII

  Jesus, Keys, Needs

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• Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wells

  Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.7, Open Court Publishing

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• It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must necessarily be molded by the character of the object worshipped. If it is a cruel and revengeful God, or a selfish and unjust God, the worshiper will be cruel, and revengeful, and selfish, and unjust, also. If it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be loving, and tender, and forgiving, and unselfish, as well.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  God, Religious, Selfish

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• The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

  Camille Paglia

  Female, Lasts, Western

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• We mustn't reserve communing with God just for morning and evening prayers, or for weekly worship service, or for when we feel burdened. The goal is to realize that every moment of our lives is a meditation. Allow yourself to marvel at the wonder of God's work all around us. Throughout your day, let the sun, a tree, a piece of fruit remind you that everything you could ever want has been provided and can be found right here on earth.

  Susan L. Taylor

  God, Morning, Prayer

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.35, Anchor

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• Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Fall, Church, Disease

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• The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

  Philip Johnson

  Spiritual, Religious, Inspiration

  Philip Johnson (1979). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1979: Presented to Philip Johnson”

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• In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Hard Work, Self

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Spiritual, Art

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Enough, Idolatry

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• Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

  Joseph Sobran

  Idols, Evil, Doe

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• In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.

  Richard Matheson

  Heart, People, Veins

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Soul, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.173, Harvard University Press

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• The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

  John Owen

  Home, Son, Men

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.40

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• God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

  J. I. Packer

  Wise, Prayer, Mean

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• The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Greatness, Church

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• All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

  Bill Jenkins

  Virginia, Hymns, Community

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