quotations about worship
Prayer and worship is the most intimate thing you can share.
BYLLE BREAUX
"Jessi Colter: The Psalms", Elmore Magazine, March 30, 2017
The oldest and wisest of human communities show most respect to the gods, and are most careful of their worship.
XENOPHON
attributed, Day's Collacon
We think that we have gotten rid of idolatry because we no longer worship painted or carved images, as though these where the only idols.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Seeking After God
[The] heart is the place in which an acquaintance with God must be sought. It is there we must worship him, if we would worship him in spirit and in truth.
HANNAH MORE
Practical Piety: Or, The Influence of the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of the Life
We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
WENDELL BERRY
The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays
Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.
PAUL DAVID TRIPP
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands
As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds.
And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs.
And he clothes them with thunders and beauty,
He clothes them with music and fire,
Seeing not, as he bows by their altars,
That he worships his own desire.
DON MARQUIS
The God-Maker, Man