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Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
Haile Selassie
'Do not venerate me, I am not Divine. I'm just a human being. My devotion is to Jesus Christ.'
2.
The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off
Ibn Taymiyyah
The malady that learning produces is pridefulness, and the ailment that reverence instills is vanity.
3.
There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
'Divinity is a fabrication, the originator of it a dunce, its propagator a miscreant and its admirer an uncivilised.'
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Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.
T. D. Jakes
Anxiety and angst is a consequence of trusting oneself and assuming the role of one's own deity, governing all things. Revering permits us to depend on God's might to guide us through existence.
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When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.
Swami Vivekananda
Focus all your attention on the task at hand and approach it with reverence as if it is an act of devotion.
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Those who worship and adore the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their pain and suffering.
Guru Gobind Singh
Those who revere and venerate the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their anguish and agony.
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Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.
Louie Giglio
Anxiety and adoration can not occupy the same realm. One invariably displaces the other. Decide on adoration.
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Show me where you spend your time, money and energy and I'll tell you what you worship.
John Wimber
Reveal to me how you invest your resources and I can discern what you revere.
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The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
'The most egregious offence is not their fabrication - one can always look past deceit - inventing tales can be entertaining, as it often reveals truth - what is offensive is that they fabricate and honour their own falsehoods.'
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To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.
Brother Lawrence
To revere God earnestly is to acknowledge Him for His divinity, and to be aware of our own mortal nature.
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Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
J. C. Ryle
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Visitation of God's presence is a byproduct of worship. However, we don't worship in order to gain His presence. He is worthy to be worshipped whether or not He chooses to show up.
John Wimber
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The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.
N. T. Wright
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Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.
Ruth Graham
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We learned that what happens when we are alone with the Lord determines how intimate and deep the worship will be when we come together.
John Wimber
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For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
John Calvin
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If we serve Jesus then every act & thought has meaning. Acts of kindness aren't just niceties, they become acts of worship.
John Wimber
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If you stand, worship, and love God in the midst of lack and difficulty, you will never lose
Heidi Baker
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God is God; you are but one of His creatures. Your only joy is to be found in obeying Him, your true fulfillment is to be found in worshiping Him, your only wisdom is to be found in trusting and knowing Him.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
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The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.
Mother Teresa
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Worship changes the worshiper into the image of One worshiped
Jack W. Hayford
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Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you!
T. D. Jakes
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If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.
Adolf Hitler
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Do I worship God or what other people think of me?
Andy Mineo
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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
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We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
John Owen
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Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.
Paul David Tripp
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Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.
Karl Barth
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Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
John Calvin
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The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
Baal Shem Tov
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Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.
Habib Umar bin Hafiz
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Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore.
Geerhardus Vos
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Your problems aren't too big -- perhaps your worship is too small.
Tommy Tenney
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Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.
Muhammad
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Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.
Mark Batterson
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Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very core of who you are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does.
Darlene Zschech
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A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.
Roger Williams
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No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process
James Montgomery Boice
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When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.
Lamar Boschman
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Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!
Jack W. Hayford
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Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him.
Laura Story
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Songs of worship arise from a life of worship.
Tim Hughes
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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do other than to worship it.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I do not worship matter, I worship the God of matter, who became matter for my sake and deigned to inhabit matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. I will not cease from honoring that matter which works for my salvation. I venerate it, though not as God.
John of Damascus