“Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?” SoulBodySufferingChurchSinEssentialsWorshipDeserveConnectionsCatholicBlindCurrentsPunishmentDumbFaithfulDeafWorldviewBeing FaithfulTruth And Beauty Author:Dana Gioia
“What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.” IfsSeemsSchoolChristianAtheismWorshipDeserveConvictionPositive AtheismFirmSundayAbsurdityChristian FaithSunday SchoolChristian GodGroveling Author:H. L. Mencken
“In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.” ThinkingKnowsMeanEndsMorningWorshipMusicianDeserveDollarsBillions Author:Danger Mouse
“It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.” BelieveHas BeensSeemsHumanityForcePracticeHeroWorshipDeserveUpliftingSeatsCondemnationStrengtheningHero Worship Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I espoused human rights in its broadest definition, not only freedom of speech but freedom of assembly, freedom of worship and trial by jury but also the right of people for people to have a decent home to live, food to eat, employment, healthcare, self respect, dignity. So I think the broad gamut of human rights, peace and freedom. I would like to be remembered for those things to the degree that I deserve it and I still have a long way to go.” PeopleThinkingWayHumansLongStillsSelfHomeRememberPresidentRightsSpeechDegreesWorshipDeserveDignityHuman RightsDefinitionsTrialsEmploymentRememberedDecentSelf RespectBroadsHealthcareFreedom Of SpeechLong WayJuryAssemblyLong Way To GoTrial By JuryFreedom Of Assembly Author:Jimmy Carter
“Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?” SpiritOrderPerfectComfortWorshipGloryDeserveFilledDefinitionsChristian InspirationalHolinessExhaustedOur WordsThesaurus Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.” BelieveMightWaterBearsGoodnessWorshipDeserveCleanWorthyConvincedCardsOur LoveGreetingsClean WaterWorthy Of LoveWhite TeethDeserve LoveGreeting Card Book:White Teeth: A Novel Source: White Teeth: A Novel
“We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.” PeopleWorldMadeEyeLanguageGivenNationsWishStuffSuccessfulTakenGreaterThis WorldTelevisionEternalWorshipDeservePraiseDelightRadicalObedienceRetirementSaviorVacationBowsMore MoneyThronesTribesPursued Author:David Platt
“To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.” GivingUsedPrayerCitiesWorshipDeservePraiseNoiseFulfillingQuietnessGod Is There Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as successful. Rather, the entire reason for our worship is that God deserves it. (Worship) immerses us in the regal splendor of the King of the cosmos…provides opportunities for us to enjoy God’s presence in corporate ways that takes us out of time and into the eternal purposes of God’s kingdom. As a result, we shall be changed—but not because of anything we do. God, on whom we are centered and to whom we submit, will transform us by his Revelation of himself.” WayReasonPurposeOpportunityEnjoyChurchResultsNumbersSuccessfulChangedOughtKingsEternalWorshipDeserveGainsKingdomsCorporateRevelationsCosmosSubmitSplendorGod's PresenceUtilitarianRegalPurpose Of God Author:Marva Dawn