Modern Worship Quotes

#1. There's no scientific definition. A hymn ... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly.

Keith Getty

#2. Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. So a law was made that any Christian might worship as he saw fit. This was the first toleration act in the history of America. It was the first toleration act in the history of modern times.

Edward Channing

#4. As long as there is one house there must be one hand.

Willa Cather

#5. You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving.

Debasish Mridha

#6. There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.

Sir Fulke Greville

#7. What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates the body of Christ?

Geoffrey W Bromiley

#8. I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#9. As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

Richard J. Foster

#10. Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

Susan Sontag

#11. Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.

James Freeman Clarke

#12. Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship.

E.L. Doctorow

#13. Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. Modern

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#14. Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity.

Tarek Saab

#15. It is the unrepentant worship of statistics that forms the true orthodoxy of any modern police department.

David Simon

#16. Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

William Robertson Smith

#17. If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.

Na

#18. The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

R.C. Sproul

#19. I feel relieved, reborn, I'm me again.
Free from heartbreak, that strong yet invisible chain,
That stymied me from living again.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#20. What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.

Mark Nepo

#21. I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.

Michael Dirda

#22. Le me try to be enough for you.

Krista Ritchie

#23. Gone is what happens when people stop asking, when all research has ceased, when no one contributes to the archives of a life or its extinction.

Ellen Miller

#24. The Court abandoned the traditional constitutional meaning of 'religion' as a single denomination or system of worship and instead substituted a new 'modern' concept which even now remains vague and nebulous, having changed several times in recent years.

David Barton

#25. How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

Hans Rookmaaker

#26. a Philosopher could not grasp the modern idea of progress ... until he was willing to abandon ancestor worship, until he analyzed away his inferiority complex toward the past, and realized that his own generation was superior to any yet known

Carl Becker

#27. I haven't played EDC since 2011. Normally, my sound fits a little bit better in mixed festivals.

Skrillex

#28. Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.

Margaret Atwood