Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.
If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.
The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works
My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity.
There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs, but deep within, behind the scenes at a profounder level we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings.
Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.
Antwan Patton and Andre Benjamin saved my life. That's how I view them giving me a record deal, with nothing but love and adoration. I saw Big Boi have to do what he kept doing after Dre said he didn't want to do touring and Aquemini [the label].
I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.
Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name. Therefore, acceptable worship is impossible without preaching. For preaching is making known the name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known.
You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.
Adoration is caring for God above all else.
If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.
Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be. . . enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.
Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
It's a give and take relationship with my fans. They give me love and adoration, and I take it from them.
Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect on Scriptures and the more I sense how God thrills to the adoration He receives from all that He has created, the more I realize He has given us the awesome responsibility of caring for His creation so that it can go on praising Him until the end of time.
It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should offer not what one has but what one is.
