Brother Lawrence Quotes

We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.

The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

[Worshipping God] is like fellating someone who intermittently stubs fags out on your head for no good reason. And we all know how unsatisfying that can be.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.

A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.

If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will.

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

You can't worship the image or the Crucifix itself. You have to worship God.

We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.

Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.

The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.

It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.

To be worshiped is not freedom.

We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.