Worship is our first or foundational ministry. It is not our only ministry, but the one that all other spheres of ministry should be built upon.
When we lead worship we should be looking for the activity of God. . . our response is also a partaking of the worship that is going on in heaven.
Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.
There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.
Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.
The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.
It’s easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you’ll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is what’s of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.
When God is at the center of your life, you Worship, when He's not, you Worry.
I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.
If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.
I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved.
The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
If you want to know what a man's character is really like. . . ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom. ' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.