Genuine Worship Quotes

#1. Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.

Max Anders

#2. The goal then is to understand why people did not or could not act differently. People acted the way they did for very good reasons; we need to understand why the behavior of the people involved made sense to them at the time

Nancy G. Leveson

#3. She rises on her toes and kisses his cheek. "You know what I'm gonna say now."
Zombie smiles. "He'll be fine, Cassie." He grabs her hand and squeezes hard. "With my life."
Her response is immediate and fierce. "Not with your life, Parish. With your death.

Rick Yancey

#4. The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.

Nick Bostrom

#5. The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.

Ralph Fletcher

#6. Life is a puzzle, a riddle, a test, a mystery, a game - whatever challenge you wish to compare it to. Just remember, you're not the only participant; no one person holds all the answers, the pieces, or the cards. The trick to success in this life is to accumulate teammates and not opponents.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. If I die tonight, I want to die remembering what it was like to hold the whole world in my hands.

Leylah Attar

#8. From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.

Taisen Deshimaru

#9. Our worship offering as believers should be out of convenience and sheer love for God

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Sacrifices by believers should not be done out of pity

Sunday Adelaja

#11. I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.

Nick Harkaway

#12. That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

Celia Green

#13. 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.

Evelyn Underhill

#14. The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise.
Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.

Charles R. Swindoll

#15. I stopped and listened. But all I could hear was.. a kind of thudding, and not in me but somewhere near me ... my heart.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#16. The nature of pure and genuine religion ... consists in faith, united with a serious fear of God, comprehending a voluntary reverence, and producing legitimate worship agreeable to the injunctions of the law.

John Calvin

#17. The better (i.e., the more accurately) we know God through his Word, the more genuine our worship will be. In fact, the moment we veer from what is true about God, we're engaging in idolatry. Regardless of what we think or feel, there is no authentic worship of God without a right knowledge of God.

Bob Kauflin

#18. I wasn't worried about turning 40 at all.

Helena Christensen

#19. So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Shirley Jackson