Quotes about Worship
"A man's spirit is the highest part of a man. That is the part of him which lasts when the physical part of him has vanished. That is the part of him that dreams the dreams and sees the visions. True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True worship is when the immortal and invisible part of a man speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible."
William Barclay
"One person’s life-giving experience is another person’s boring old tradition"
NT Wright Bishop of Durham
The English and worship...
"God is all very well, in his place, which is in the church. When we are in his house - at weddings and funerals - we make all the right noises, as one does in people's houses, although we find the earnestness of it all faintly ridiculous, and a bit uncomfortable... Other people are welcome to worship Him if they choose - it's a free country - but this is a private matter, and they should keep it to themselves and not bore or embarrass the rest of us by making an unnecessary fuss about it. (There's nothing the English hate more than a fuss.)"
'Watching the English' by Kate fox
When we worship ourselves...
"No matter how much damage may be caused when man worships God, it cannot compare with the damage caused when man worships man."
"I still regard myself as an unbeliever, but what has become absolutely clear to me is that the accumulated wisdom of of the church, the result of two millenia of social teaching, has far more to offer the young of this century than any secular philosophy. And if you doubt that, you need only to wander the nation's city centres on a Saturday night, to witness what the abandonment of the idea of individual sin and individual responsibility has achieved - from the Lord's Prayer to The Lord of the Flies in two generations."
Dominic Lawson - The Independent newspaper
One who worships herself...
"I've always had a plan and being on a top-rated prime time television show was part of that plan. I want the best things that life has to offer me - the beautiful houses, the cars, the 10.000 thread count Egyptian sheets. What's more, I'm going to get them. I'm going to work my butt off and get everything I can."
Eva Longhoria, aka Gabrielle Solis of Desperate Housewives
It's not just who you know, it's what you know...
"It is of great importance to note that our theology (belief about God) and doxology (our worship of God) should never be separated. It is not possible to worship an unknown God. All true worship is a response to the self-revelation of God in Christ and in Scripture. Worship without theology is bound to degenerate into idolatry. Hence the indispensable place of scripture in both public worship and private devotion. It is the word of God which calls forth the worship of God."
John Stott
Those who do not worship...
"In fact, and atheist is really a small minded individual who refuses to accept things which go beyond his own limited life experience... like a man whose radio set is broken and so does not believe in radio signals."
Fr Francis Marsden