#worship

No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku? ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#god #worship #afterlife

I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love that we should show one another. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#love #religion #worship #love

When we dedicate our talent to serving a neighbor, it is possibly one of the highest forms of worship; something sacred transpires when we sacrifice our time and dedicate our God-given loves and talents to one another. ↗

— Matt Litton

#love #talent #worship #inspirational

Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#princess-diana #religion #worship #marriage

When we worship, we ascend, when we ascend we gain revelation from God. ↗

— Chuck D. Pierce

#god #inspirational-quotes #jesus #worship #inspirational

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#creed #day #every #hard #lies

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#any #continually #creation #god #hardly

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#form #forms #god #him #infinite

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#sacred #science #worship #art

Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#wonder #worship #attitude