God Quotes

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

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

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

I can't imagine that the God of the universe is limited to our ideas of God. I can't imagine that God doesn't reveal God's self in countless ways outside of the symbol system of Christianity. In a way, I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

My heart is filled with profound gratitude to God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your worship is proportional to your communion with God and how you are free with Him.

~ Paul Gitwaza

...Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.

~ Rebecca Wells

Prayer is an act of praise and worship to God

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All we need to release our inner God is a pulpit and an audience, both of which the Internet supplies in great abundance. Too bad that the corollaly to being in God mode in cyberspace is an explosion of narcissism and self-centeredness.

~ Elias Aboujaoude Md

Repentance is the highest form of worship that a man can give to God.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.

~ Kameron Hurley

The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was Gods desire at Sinai - thst everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other.

~ Rob Bell

We should know and celebrate God with our whole person. While too many Christians neglect to serve God with the mind, others cultivate only their minds and neglect the emotional aspects of worship.

~ Craig S. Keener

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life.

~ Timothy J. Keller

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

~ Swami Vivekananda

The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise.Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

In many (most?) churches there are programs and activities... but so little worship. There are songs and anthems and musicals... but so little worship. There are announcements and readings and prayers... but so little worship.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

~ Colin S. Smith

Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely.

~ Jim George

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

~ Colin S. Smith

Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.

~ Elizabeth George

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

the heart of worship is all about living a life yielded to God in every possible way.

~ Gangai Victor

The heart of a worshipper is a heart arrested and set free by the love of God.

~ Gangai Victor

God is not an audiophile demanding the best possible stage sound.

~ Gangai Victor

We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold him as we should, the change is profound.

~ John Piper

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

~ Ann Voskamp

God calls a man, ‘man’ only if he identifies himself with God’s values ad stands for truth and justice

~ Sunday Adelaja

I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension.

~ Mark Andrew Poe

I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time. I am outside dimension. Do you want me? I am yours.

~ Mark Andrew Poe

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate an ever greater number of desires to gratify, and to abolish as many limits and prohibitions upon desire as it can. Such a society is already implicitly atheist and so must slowly but relentlessly apply itself to the dissolution of transcendent values. It cannot allow ultimate goods to distract us from proximate goods. Our sacred writ is advertising, our piety is shopping, our highest devotion is private choice. God and the soul too often hinder the purely acquisitive longings upon which the market depends, and confront us with values that stand in stark rivalry to the only truly substantial value at the center of the social universe: the price tag.

~ David Bentley Hart