Worship of God Quotes

• The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

  

  William Blake
  • Hate
  • Genius
  • Calumniate

• Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest) in the public worship of God, as it now is (with the claim that it is the Christianity of the New Testament), thou hast constantly one guilt the less, and that a great one: thou dost not take part in treating God as a fool by calling that the Christianity of the New Testament which is not the Christianity of the New Testament.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Art
  • Christianity
  • Guilt

• The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Home
  • Peoples
  • Worship of God

• On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) This adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Opinion
  • Scripture
  • Kings

• I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Result
  • Worship of God
  • Prostrate

• Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

  

  John Calvin
  • Father
  • Prayers
  • Worship of God

• The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

  

  John Calvin
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Worship of God

• The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess. Jesus said if men held back their praise, even the stones might "cry out" in worship.

  

  Ed Buckner
  • Jesus
  • Creation
  • Possess