#wors

God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense. ↗

— Marva J. Dawn

#theology #worship #courage

One of the most effective ways of changing l the way people think is to change the way they worship. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#worship #change

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music. ↗

— Don Piper

#unity #worship #death

The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses instead to traffic what can be found on any street corner or at the local mall. You may ask, "But how has the church done that?" * By offering secularists what they find mildly interesting and calling it church. *By submitting to self-help sermons where encounter with God is not even on the agenda. * By letting the horizontal excellence of the show stand in for Vertical impact. *By substituting the surprise or shock of superficial entertainment for the supernatural. Church was designed to deliver what we were created to long for. Church must again be about a Vertical encounter that interrupts and alters everything. ↗

— James MacDonald

#purpose #secularists #transcendence #vertical #world

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#enmity #friendship #love #men #men and women

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did. ↗

— Junipero Serra

#bad #cold #daily #did #discovered

It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#worship #experience

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#gandhi #god #mohandas #prayer #religion

Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship. ↗

— Billy Graham

#god #jesus #prayer #worship #faith

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#faith