Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.
If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.
Singing is as much an act of worship as is prayer.
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
Worship isn't a feeling you wait for, it's a choice you make.
There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.
God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.
At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.
Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship. . . If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
Our rule is the works of mercy. . . It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.
I want someone who will adore me so much that they cannot even walk past me without touching me in some way. I want someone who will worship me, even when. . I'm sitting around in fluffy slippers with no makeup on and hair scraped back. I'm sick and tired of being on my own. Most of the time I'm fine. Some of the time I even quite enjoy it. But at this precise moment in time I'm fed up with it. I've had enough.
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't
Too many temples where we could worship the beast.
We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.