quotations about worship
Worship is the community's cult in its purest, most inward, most subjective form--a cult in which objectivity is, as it were, consumed and digested, while the objective content, now stripped of its objectivity, has become a possession of mind and feeling.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
Aesthetics
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
Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Survivor
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.
CRISS JAMI
Killosophy
Prayer and worship is the most intimate thing you can share.
BYLLE BREAUX
"Jessi Colter: The Psalms", Elmore Magazine, March 30, 2017
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
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