personal worship Quotes

My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . . . So I didn't have the problem some people do who say, "I don't know how to pray." I used the songs to communicate with God. . . . To me, songs were the telephone to heaven, and I tied up the line quite a bit.

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

Frequently, we busily search for group service projects, which are surely needed and commendable, when quiet, personal service is also urgently needed. Sometimes the completing of an occasional group service project ironically salves our consciences when, in fact, we are constantly surrounded by a multitude of opportunities for individual service. In serving, as in true worship, we need to do some things together and some things personally. Our spiritual symmetry is our own responsibility, and balance is so important.

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

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

No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.