Worshiping Quotes

#1. The church isn't a circle of friends, but the family of God. The covenant of grace connects generations, rooting them in that worshiping community with the "cloud of witnesses" in heaven as well as here and now (Heb 12:1).

Michael S. Horton

#2. It's still amazing to me to walk down the halls of 'SNL.' You see pictures of the greatest comedians we grew up worshiping, basically. It's crazy to be able to still work there.

Jorma Taccone

#3. I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. What could be more hapless than a man controlled by his own creations? It is surely easier for a man to cease to be a man by worshiping man-made gods than for idols to become divine by being adored.

Augustine Of Hippo

#5. True knowledge is found only among those genuinely worshiping God.

John Cassian

#6. She wore defeat like a piece of cheap jewelry. "Worshiping them. Anointing them with oil, Mrs. Gervais," I said.

Pat Conroy

#7. Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

Neal A. Maxwell

#9. Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.

Ridley Scott

#10. If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilitie s on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#11. I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

A. J. Jacobs

#12. Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

Allegra Goodman

#13. In a way, it was the beginning of something I'd long feared: that vampires would become part of the popular culture. That people would be too busy worshiping them or imitating them or even laughing at them - and forget to fear them.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#14. We bring God glory by worshiping him. Worship is our first responsibility to God. We worship God by enjoying him.

Rick Warren

#15. Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule.

Unica Zurn

#16. He alone is worshiping God who serves all beings.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#18. Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. The more I know, the best I believe. The more I know, the best I'm worshiping Him. Because, in the end Allah knows the best.

Tariq Ramadan

#20. That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

C.S. Lewis

#21. As long as I can remember, the compelling force behind my calling is a desire to know Jesus more and to make Him known. I believe I was created for a relationship with Jesus, so growing in my relationship with Him and worshiping Him with all my heart and life is preeminent.

Louie Giglio

#22. Prayer is a walk with God ... We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it, you'll never have that intimacy of ministering to the Lord and worshiping Him with a group that you'll have in your own individual life.

Kenneth E. Hagin

#23. No Christian assumes the Jews are right about everything, but they knew God during tens of centuries during which my ancestors were worshiping trees and eating each other, so when they talk, I listen.

Stephen Graham

#24. To Jewish audiences, worshiping a crucified man was blasphemy; it was about as kosher as pork sausages wrapped in bacon served to Jews for a jihad fundraiser.

Anonymous

#25. You are so fool worshiping and dreaming her like an angel; while another asshole is banging her right now.

M.F. Moonzajer

#26. The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural.

David Gibson

#27. All this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips ...

John Geddes

#28. Apart from worshiping God, everything becomes superficial. But when you understand the driving force behind everything, all of a sudden there's an eternal amount of joy at our disposal, because everything we do is enlightened and enlivened by the endless glory of the eternal God.

Matt Chandler

#29. If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.

Richard Rohr

#30. I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

Evelyn Waugh

#31. We should be dissatisfied with the stale, routine way we've been worshiping and seek His presence. We should build the temple and build a relationship with Him that's genuine and real.

Lynn Austin

#32. His face, and his face alone, needs to be the driving force of our lives. If it's not, we are worshiping something else, and sooner or later that idol will be taken from us by a trial, circumstance, or death.

Jefferson Bethke

#33. The word worship is defined by glory and thanksgiving. We are worshiping when we give glory to something. Whatever we give glory to, we sacrifice for.

Jefferson Bethke

#34. She was worshiping under the blue sky, to the jubilant chanting of the birds.

Jean Webster

#35. A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world." "To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.

Anthony De Mello

#36. When I make love to you, Lanie, I want you to feel every inch of me buried deep inside of you, loving you, worshiping your body ...

Flora Roberts

#37. Theology is a means to enjoying and worshiping God, or it is useless.

John Piper

#38. If you make anything a higher priority than God, you are worshiping it and not God.

Jim George

#39. Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!

Jack W. Hayford

#40. You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.

Donald Whitney

#41. I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

K. Lee Lerner

#42. The worshiping community confesses and intercedes on the basis of, not the theory of God's existence, but the experience of a multigenerational community of witnesses.

Thomas C. Oden

#43. Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

Buddha

#44. Living with love for all humankind and worshiping nature's immense beauty cures heartache and restores bliss. Respecting the splendor of nature awakens us to the beauty inscribing our own humanity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#45. While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.

C.S. Lewis

#46. Prayer is primarily for loving and worshiping God. If you would seek first His kingdom and just fellowship with Him, you'd find your needs already provided.

Andrew Wommack

#47. So many today are worshiping in the mountains, big churches, stone and frame buildings. But Jesus teaches that salvation is not in these stone structures-not in the mountains-not in the hills, but in God.

William J. Seymour

#48. If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

Cornel West

#49. This was how God had intended it to be. A precious gift. A sacred oneness.
I love you. He said the words in the way he held her, his rock hard arms so gentle they felt like air around her. I love you. His hands told her-not merely touching her, but worshiping her.

Catherine Anderson

#50. All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

Charles Spurgeon

#51. A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance.

Elizabeth George

#52. No matter how great the power is that the Holy Spirit releases through a prophet, we are to focus our hearts and attention first on loving, worshiping, and obeying Jesus.

Mike Bickle

#53. We become like what we worship. If you find yourself constantly bitter or angry, a good question to ask is, what god am I worshiping?

Josh Ross

#54. Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.

Paul David Tripp

#55. What's going on here?" Miles demanded, pushing his way past the last of the stampeding throng. "And why is Santa worshiping that elf?

Laura Resnick

#56. Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

Khalil Gibran

#57. We imagine that our theological/conceptual systems are the means by which we know God as God is. I truly believe that such postures and perspectives put us in danger of conceptual idolatry, worshiping our ideas of and frameworks for God.

Tim Keel

#58. Beauty and youth. What a dazzling combination. To bewilder and to sparkle. Days filled with sunshine. And men worshiping at her feet. Love was a game she played with wantonness and mischief.

-Fabulous

Jofelyn Martinez Khapra

#59. Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

Ron Carlson

#60. I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?'

Giancarlo Esposito

#61. Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

Colin S. Smith

#62. I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing.

Rainn Wilson

#63. Let your life choices tell others of your wonderful God as you walk through life worshiping Him.

Elizabeth George

#64. As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

Will Durant

#65. Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

Gustav Mahler

#66. Bad boy stopped her, placing a hand on her knees. "Tell you what, if you don't have a guy worshiping you by this time next year, come find me. I'll show you a weekend you'll never forget.

Eden Summers

#67. Ethan, this is my favorite moment, before all of my other favorite moments are created with a new client. You are my work of art, mine to possess, sculpt, mend, bend, and make beg for mercy. You will adore worshiping, pleasing and serving me." ~ Mistress

Ruby Madden

#68. Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.

William J. Seymour

#69. True liberty comes with the abandonment of self in our worshiping God, freeing us to worship in His way, not ours.

Ray Hughes

#70. Next to be in one with worshiping God, there is nothing in this world upon which this church should be more united than in upholding and defending the constitution of the United States.

David O. McKay

#71. We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#72. Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God ... It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#73. There is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

David Foster Wallace

#74. The moment we feel we can succeed and attain victory over sin by the strength of our will alone is the moment we are worshiping the will.

Richard J. Foster

#75. A worshiping community should be the fountain from which life flows and the ocean into which your efforts are merged. That is where identity is defined, refined, and consolidated and where continuity remains.

Ravi Zacharias

#76. I'm always surprised when writers say they don't believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We're all worshiping something.

Shane Jones

#77. Their son went to the idol-worshiping, uniform-wearing Catholic school,

Jeanne Ray

#78. If chance be the Father of all flesh,
Disaster is his rainbow in the sky,
And when you hear
State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.

Steve Turner

#79. The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God ... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#80. Every single time I confess my self-reliance and submit my life to God's will in a particular area, I am worshiping God--as surely as any sincere Israelite offering a lamb in obedience to God's plan.

Barbara Hughes

#81. That is why Christ never said, 'by the amount of focus you put on worshiping me, people will know you are my disciples.' No, what he said was, 'People will know you are my disciples by the love you have for one another.' God

Mick Mooney

#82. God is God; you are but one of His creatures. Your only joy is to be found in obeying Him, your true fulfillment is to be found in worshiping Him, your only wisdom is to be found in trusting and knowing Him.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#83. Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith is worshiping a different god.

Suzy Kassem

#84. Open it at that sad madrigal that begins "Que m'importe que tu sois sage? Sois belle! et sois triste" and you will find yourself worshiping sorrow as you never worshiped joy.

Oscar Wilde

#85. The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#86. Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

George Takei

#87. If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

Gore Vidal

#88. 'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we ... ' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'

Samuel R. Delany

#89. A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

Oswald Chambers

#90. God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

Oswald Chambers

#91. Learn to shut out the distractions that keep you from truly worshiping God.

Billy Graham

#92. I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words

Malcolm X

#93. I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

Kirk Cameron

#94. The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

George Washington

#95. If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#96. Winning and being smart is not all that required, but the fulfillments of the Christian race brings peace ,joy to the mind and soul.

Jerry Y. Sarkw.