John Ruskin Quotes

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

The life of man needs to be consecrated.

I don't go to church every week.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

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

I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship.

Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

All service is the same with God.

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

When we have learned to offer up every duty connected with our situation in life as a sacrifice to God, a settled employment becomes just a settled habit of prayer.

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

We worship God with our entire life - with every decision we make and everything we do

Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second

My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

Mission exists because worship doesn't.

The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn't just Sunday, it isn't the block plan, it isn't just 3 hours in church, it isn't just the time you spend in Seminary - it's all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.

Devotion is not drama. Devotion is a way of living. Devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and the way your heart beats.

If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.