Worship Quotes - Page 17

• I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I think regular touring has forced me to play the guitar more than anything else, which is why I'm probably most confident playing that. And whist I'd be lost if I couldn't play it too, I dislike the totemic worship of the thing... magazines, collectors, and so on. I enjoy struggling with instruments I can't really play.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Struggle, Thinking, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I secretly hate worship music, as it's it weak and predictable, with lyrics designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator - not the greatest art ever created by mankind, as I think true worship should attempt to be. Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along.

  Reese Roper

  Song, Art, Hate

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according to the morals that Israel would eventually get in the Torah, and to teach those same principles to their people. I'd also want to make sure they worship no other god but the Most High.

  Michael S. Heiser

  People, Moral, Influence

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• God doesn't want to give Israel a king, because God knows, being the rather observant deity God is, that the Israelites will become like all other nations: they will worship their king and not God.

  Tripp York

  Giving, God Knows

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• It is clear to me that the imbalance of power between the genders is a major part of the world's problems right now. Anything out of balance is going to eventually be bad for us and presently the male energy and the worship of maleness is in fact a major contributor to the decaying state the world finds itself in.

  Kamala Lopez

  Balance, Energy, World

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I've never been intimidated to write music, to minister through leading worship, preaching or teaching, or even writing a book or acting. Who knows what God will put before me? Regardless, my heart is settled and content doing what I love to do above all things.

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Book, Teaching, Writing

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I have the privilege of ministering in many different streams of the church. When you do that you're never going to subscribe to everything each other believe, but there's always so much common ground. The main and plain stuff you have in common, so you build upon that. I've never found a stream of the church I didn't learn something from. Every single time, even if I didn't personally agree with everything, there was something I took away, or learned, and felt like a stronger worshipper or worship leader.

  Matt Redman

  Believe, Leader, Church

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I love to say that not only is the throne room of God a place of reverence, it's always a place of refuge. So when everything else in life seems to be shifting, or breaking and shaking apart, there's a place that is always stable, safe, and constant. When we draw near to God in worship, and approach His throne, we tap into that. It's a very re-assuring place, where we're reminded that there's a God on His throne, and even when we don't understand everything, we can trust it to Him.

  Matt Redman

  Reverence, Refuge, Shaking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When we, believers, sing our songs of worship, not only do we praise God through them, but we preach to ourselves. As we sing the truth of who it is we're worshipping, as well as honoring God, it can be so helpful to us. Worship is about magnifying the right things. It can be so easy to let the struggles of this become all consuming, and we must not ignore them. But when we worship, instead of magnifying and focusing on those things, we magnify and focus on the name, the strength, the power, the grace of Jesus. When we do that, it puts everything into perspective.

  Matt Redman

  Song, Jesus, Struggle

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.

  Roy Moore

  Islam, First Amendment, Teach

  "Front-Runner For U.S. Senate Seat In Alabama Calls Islam A ‘False Religion" by Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2017.

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• We live in a culture of quick fixes. We want to feel better and we want to feel better now. I believe that's why many turn to alcohol and drugs because they want to numb the pain of life. In my life I have a choice. I can sit with my depression and look at Jesus or I can sit with Jesus and look at my depression. What I mean by that is I can focus on what's broken and wonder where God is or I can sit in the companionship of Christ who suffered for us and worship him in the middle of the mess. That gives my pain meaning and context.

  Sheila Walsh

  Jesus, Pain, Believe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When depression or suicidal thoughts weigh heavily, the hardest thing to do is to fight. My battle weapons are the Word of God, meditation, confession, community, and worship. But each evening I take my medication with a prayer of thanksgiving that God has provided this kind of help for those of us who need it.

  Sheila Walsh

  Prayer, Suicidal, Fighting

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the US, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here. When I moved to Britain, the utilities were state-run. By the time I left, most of that was privatized. Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

  Jon Weisman

  Party, Passion, Cutting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nature is like a canvas, a painting of countless options and possibilities. You don't really worship spirit, because you are also spirit, and spirits don't worship one another. What makes you different from spirit overall is that you are locked into temporality. You have a body, like a piece of cloth that is decayable. While you stay in it, it's hard for you to have the same abilities that spirit has without a body. It is also easy to make mistakes about what is real, and how to go about things effectively.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Real, Mistake, Different

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• Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of celebrity in this country leads us away from democratic ways of thinking and into this hero worship. And so of course, one man cannot swoop in and fix everything on his own. It's much more complicated and difficult than that, and progressives in this country since then have had to come to terms with the fact that we need to do more than actually get out of our house and vote. It's an ongoing process to turn the tide.

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Hero, Men

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• Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Sri Lanka, Perfect

  "The Foundations of Indian Culture". Book by Sri Aurobindo, 1953.

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• He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Humanity, Desire, Liberty

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Arthur Lehning (1973). “Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin”, Jonathan Cape

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• I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids.

  Roseanne Barr

  Hate, Kids, Earth

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• Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

  Annie Besant

  Profound, Noble, Sun

  Annie Besant (2016). “Esoteric Christianity”, p.7, BookRix

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• The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.

  Annie Besant

  Children, Men, Ideas

  Annie Besant (2014). “My Path to Atheism”, p.169, The Floating Press

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• Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

  Julie Burchill

  Levels, Hierarchy, Despise

  "Once we had anarchy in the UK. Now all we have is monarchy in the UK". www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Mean, Wicked, Action

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Teaching, Men

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• Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

  Leonard Cohen

  Deities, Affirmation, Tradition

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• I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Temples, Blame

  "The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression". Book by Robert E. Gilbert, p. 78, 2003.

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