Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.
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
It does matter where you go to church, it does matter where you worship, it does matter where you lift your head, it does matter where you cry out to God. There is something about the atmosphere. I might be lame, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be drunk, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be weak, but put me in the atmosphere.
I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship.
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.
In worship we meet the power of God and stand in its strengthening.
Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.
I still sing. I still lead worship. I mean, it's - who I am, it's what God has given me to do.
Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.
God is seeking those who hear His call to a life of worship. Those who heed are those who will walk in His presence. They will know Him intimately as He will manifest Himself to them.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
I love to say that not only is the throne room of God a place of reverence, it's always a place of refuge. So when everything else in life seems to be shifting, or breaking and shaking apart, there's a place that is always stable, safe, and constant. When we draw near to God in worship, and approach His throne, we tap into that. It's a very re-assuring place, where we're reminded that there's a God on His throne, and even when we don't understand everything, we can trust it to Him.
It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it