Rob Sheffield Quotes

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.

Not merely for country, not merely for humanity, not only for civilization, but for the religion of our Lord itself

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

In some very real way, rock 'n' roll is like a religion to me.

Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant.

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

I have a Bible study that my friends and I go to here in L.A. I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I've got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.