God Quotes - Page 27

Prayer is an act of praise and worship to God

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

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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.

Tristan Sherwin

This was especially true in some millennialist sects that filled their literature with paintings of Armageddon. Pictures of terrified people running away from some formless fiery doom that burned their world down behind them, while smug worshipers—of the correct religion, of course—watched from safety as God got with the smiting.

James S.A. Corey

In medieval India, the Hindu Vaishnava system of bhakti-yoga (devotional yoga) developed highly sophisticated categories of relation (rasa) to God, including santa (awe and reverence), vatsalya (parental attitude toward God), dasya (servant of God), sakhya (being friends and playmates with God), and madburya (passionate, romantic love).

Siobhan Houston

If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who bathe continually would attain it. As the frogs, so are these men, again and again fall into the womb.

Kabir

For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

John Clellon Holmes

So yes, I worship nature. I worship a blind Goddess. For me, she is the only worthy object of worship. She will never care that I worship her. She will never answer a single prayer. But she is always with me… shaping me as I shape her. I will struggle with her to the last gasp of my life. And in the end, in my final act of devotion, I will yield to her. - John Halstead, "I Worship the Blind Goddess

John Halstead

If we all knew who God really was and what he really wanted for each and every one of us, we would all know that only a fool could really deny him.

Criss Jami

You don't really get to choose. We worship you, and that makes you our God.

Brandon Sanderson

I once heard worship defined as celebrating the availability of God.

Larry Crabb

Instead of magnifying the problem in your thoughts, magnify God.

Faithful Akpaloo

David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, "If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me." Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God's presence close by, intimately, through worship.

Craig Groeschel

The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

C.S. Lewis

Religion and spirituality can easily be intertwined; however, there is a very distinct separation between the two.

Ricky Maye

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.

James MacDonald

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message second-hand. One of Israel's fatal mistakes was their insistence on having a human king rather than resting on the theocratic rule of God over them. We can detect a note of sadness in the word of the Lord, 'they have rejected me from being king over them' (1 Sam. 8:7). The history of religion is the story of an almost desperate scramble to have a king, a mediator, a priest, a pastor, a go-between. In this way we do not need to go to God ourselves. Such an approach saves us from the need to change, for to be in the presence of God is to change.

Richard J. Foster

God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.

Nicholas Sparks

You mean the day they stop needing the church," Vittoria challenged, moving toward him. "Doubt is your last shred of control. It is doubt that brings souls to you. Our need to know that life has meaning. Man's insecurity and need for an enlightened soul assuring him everything is part of a master plan. But the church is not the only enlightened soul on the planet! We all seek God in different ways. What are you afraid of? That God will show himself somewhere other than inside these walls? That people will find him in their own lives and leave your antiquated rituals behind? Religions evolve! The mind finds answers, the heart grapples with new truths. My father was on your quest! A parallel path! Why couldn't you see that? God is not some omnipotent authority looking down from above, threatening to throw us into a pit of fire if we disobey. God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts! God is in all things!

Dan Brown

The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display.

Alisa Hope Wagner

Dear God, save us from The Church!

Ljupka Cvetanova

As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant.

Virginia Smith

...ask yourself, "Who's getting the glory in this ministry?" You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.

Charles R. Swindoll

Emotional pain is a terrible thing to endure, but the solution is not anything unbiblical.

Lois Mowday Rabey

I cannot at the same time accept the glory and give God the glory... Glorifying God means being occupied with and committed to His ways rather than preoccupied with and determined my own way. It is being so thrilled with Him, so devoted to Him, so committed to Him that we cannot get enough of Him!

Charles R. Swindoll

Don't let hard lessons harden your heart.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.

Charles R. Swindoll

If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.

Charles R. Swindoll

You telling me God love you, and you ain't never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sing in the choir, feed the preacher and all like that?But if God love me, Celie, I don't have to do all that. Unless I want to. There's a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time. Well, this sounds like blasphemy sure nuff. She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Alice Walker

The higher Christian churches...come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism, with authority and pomp, as though they knew what they were doing, as though people in themselves were an appropriate set of creatures to have dealings with God. I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed. In the high churches they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a strand of scaffolding who have long since forgotten the danger. If God were to blast such a congregation to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it any minute.

Annie Dillard

God (mentally on my knees), if I can just get through this night, I'll come to church. On Christmas. Every fifteen years. For the next fifteen years. So once.

K.F. Germaine

The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God’s people principles of economic empowerment

Sunday Adelaja

We have come to love darkness in the church rather than finding God in creation.

Sunday Adelaja

Do you think God truly meant for us to keep Him locked in the church? Is He our Sunday pocket watch we only pull out for weddings and funerals and church services? He wishes for us to think about Him wherever we are. And a voice singing His praises at a ball is far less irreverent than a stone-cold heart sitting in a pew on Sunday morning.

Hayden Wand

We have created Black, White, Asian, and other racial Churches; but we fail to understand that there is only one Church and one Gospel.It is the Church and Gospel of Jesus Christ. John 1:12

Felix Wantang

In their churches the Protestants taught believers to go out of the four walls of the church to demonstrate their love for God by how they serve fellow humans

Sunday Adelaja

God is trying to tell us that there is a shift taking place in the body of Christ especially in the way we do church

Sunday Adelaja

Whenever God allows a mass blindness to cover his church, it is not out of stupidity, it is out of divine providence

Sunday Adelaja

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Fridtjof Nansen

Dear God, if one day I lose my hope and purpose, give me confidence that your destiny is better than anything I ever dreamed.

Daniel Friday Danzor

Out here, the open night is my church, the trees are my congregation, the stars are my angels and the moon is the only god that I know.

A.P. Sweet

Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.

Paul Gitwaza

We don’t ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.

Joseph Smith Jr.

Anybody body can be a Church goer, but there is a difference of "GOD" being in them then they being in the WORLD.

Henry Johnson Jr

God wants the church to become an authority to bring order, righteousness and purity to the country

Sunday Adelaja

The church’s task is to open people’s eyes so that they can see that there is nothing higher than God

Sunday Adelaja

The church is called by God to become God’s agent of deliverance in every nation

Sunday Adelaja

I don't know what God intends, or what qualifies Him to forgive me,' Sobran said

Elizabeth Knox

The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes a "religious society" that fights in its own interest and thus has ceased to be the church of God in the world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally Apocalyptic. It was now the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Never blame circumstances for your condition, you yourself are responsible for what you go through. If someone's treating you bad, its your fault not theirs. If you are not satisfied with your life, its time you take a step and change it. Nobody will stand for you, nobody will help you, its you who has to ultimately do something for yourself. Doesn't matters if you're hurting yourself for a small time, imagine when things will change and your life will change, how happy you'll be... Let that imagination drive you and help you in your betterment. God is watching everything, always think that, as long as, there's someone in the sky to watch over me, nobody on earth can hurt me...

Mehek Bassi

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.

Rick Warren

He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.

Francis de Sales

A distant love that waits to be together, is by far the most difficult relationship. It's like lighting a candle, and adoring the long flame and robust glow. Until time sets in like wax, overflowing deeper and deeper into the wick, leaving a sparse flame struggling to live. This is where most distant relationships fade, with the wax smothering the flame. This kind of relationship takes patience, hope, unconditional love, trust and strength, all centered around God. If the flame endures to the end, and the two come together, only then will it feel as if the candle was tipped and all the wax came pouring out, when the flame is revived, long and glowing again.

Anthony Liccione

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.

Teresa of Avila.

A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.

Criss Jami

So he could not be hasty or impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.God placed them along my path. He had surprised himself with the thought. Until then, he had considered the omens to be things of this world, Like eating or sleeping, or like seeking love or finding a job. he had never thought of them in terms of a language used by God to indicate what he should do.

Paulo Coelho

Hold on. Keep trying. God loves you. Things will improve.

Jeffrey R. Holland

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