Understanding Worship Quotes

#1. Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Northrop Frye

#2. True expectations never ever go unnoticed. So expect happiness and expect abundance.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Let understanding, compassion, and kindness be the foundation of our religion and Earth be our place of worship.

Charles F. Glassman

#5. The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

Stephen Hawking

#6. If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

Meher Baba

#7. Worship helps us to get rid of a lot of life's spiritual and natural frustrations. Through worship God brings to us a wholeness of body, mind and spirit. God is refining our understanding of true worship. True worship comes from the heart, in love and adoration unto the Lord.

Ruth Heflin

#8. People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they can still be horribly abused and are every day. You don't have to go to some far off land, far away place; we have a lot of child abuse in our own society.

Jane Goodall

#9. We haven't evolved in our understanding about spirituality or gained more knowledge about it. What we've done was create more organizations based on the exact same principles, so that everyone can be happy and worship or not whoever they want, while interpreting the same words in their own way.

Daniel Marques

#10. You might not realize it now, kid, but everyone is some shade of fucked-up.

Riley Hart

#11. Proper worship in any age is critically predicated upon adequate and accurate knowledge of the God worshiped. No matter how ceremonially elaborate, emotionally rousing, or sermonically eloquent, worship that is not offered from a proper understanding of who God is falls short.

Andreas J. Kostenberger

#12. Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.

Ravi Zacharias

#13. Intent of complete surrender (devotion) is worship itself. Complete surrender with (full understanding and real) knowledge is a very high level of worship. Even the surrender done with relative knowledge (ignorance of one's own real self) can be called worship.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

Oscar Wilde

#15. Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.

J.I. Packer

#16. Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.

R.C. Sproul

#17. If man will understand the real essence of staying in the solitude with his Maker alone, he will never spend all his time with the crowd always

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

Sarah Fielding

#19. We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.

C.J. Mahaney

#20. Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

Robert Kennedy