worship

Thus [the altar] brings heaven into the community assembled on earth, or rather it takes the community beyond itself into the communion of saints of all times and places. We might put it this way: the altar is the place where heaven is opened up.

Your worship is proportional to your communion with God and how you are free with Him.

All our time spent making lists would be better spent painting, or writing, Or singing, or learning to speak stories. Sometimes I feel as though the Church has a kind of pity for Scripture, Always having to come behind it and explain everything, put everything into actionable steps, acronyms and hidden secrets, as though the original writers, and for that matter the Holy Spirit Who worked in the lives of the original writers, were a bunch of you literate hillbillies. I think the methodology God used to explain His Truth is quite superior. My life is a story, more than a list. I don't feel that a list could ever explain the complexity of all this beauty.

The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.

To still seek God after discovering Him may be a love paradox of the soul, as A.W. Tozer reminds us; but to earnestly continue to perceive God and make Him perceivable, is the quintessence of worship.

He felt gladness roar through his soul.

A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

When the lyrical content is based on the word of God it becomes covenanted.

O Alaah, i haven't worshiped you because of lusting of heaven or fearing of hill. I've worshiped you because you deserve to be worshiped.

Since in fact liturgical traditions, vestments, church vessels, etc., were immediately removed wherever Calvinism infiltrated or Reformed ideas even gained influence in the church's polity, the reaction which it caused in Lutheran areas was a conscious propensity for ceremonies. Henceforth, therefore, the celebration of an emphatically liturgical service was among the visible signs by which the Lutheran character of confession was demonstrated outwardly.

The particular creature we love is never God__ rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

It is practically a matter of life or death for a True Cock Worshiper to taste pre-cum.

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder.

We can worship God imperfectly, but we cannot worship him insincerely.