#worship

Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#idolatry #worship #love

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. ↗

— Doreen Valiente

#love #pleasure #worship #love

I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love that we should show one another. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#love #religion #worship #love

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#worship #love

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#work #worship #business

Worship is not love. ↗

— Donald Hall

#worship #love

...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled... ↗

— John Geddes

#fulfilment #love #worship #love

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#god #inspirational-life #jesus #worship #inspirational

...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity... ↗

— John Geddes

#deify #love #women #worship #love

...I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him. ↗

— Darlene Zschech

#christian-worship #inspirational #inspirational