WORSHIP - Importance See also:Awe; Fear of God | 崇拜 - 重要 |
If we worshipped as we should, we wouldn't worry as
we shouldn't. 如果我們以應該的樣式崇拜,我們就不會擔心那不該擔心的。 |
Worship comes before
service, and the King before the King's business. 崇拜在事奉之前,王應當在王的事之前。 |
What we worship determines what we become. Harvey F. Ammerman 甚麼樣的崇拜決定我們是甚麼樣式。 |
The first foundation of
righteousness undoubtedly is the worship of God. John Calvin 公義的首要基礎無庸質疑的就是敬拜上帝。 |
The man who does not habitually worship is but a
pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. Thomas Carlyle 一個沒有經常崇拜的人,就像一副眼鏡之後沒有一雙眼睛。 |
Carnal men are content with
the 'act' of worship; they have no desire for communion with God. John W. Everett 肉體的人滿足於崇拜的行為;他們絲毫不期望與上帝交通。 |
Nothing prepares the heart more for worship of the
Lord than to contemplate his beauty and perfection. Frank Gabelein 再沒有比思想上帝的榮美與完全更能預備我們的心敬拜主。 |
Public worship will not
excuse us from secret worship. Matthew Henry 公眾崇拜不能取代個人私下的崇拜。 |
Worship is the highest function of the human soul. Geoffrey R. King 崇拜是人類心靈的最高運作。 |
We need to worship and adore
as well as to analyse and explain. Isobel Kuhn 我們需要崇拜與敬愛上帝以及分析與解釋。 |
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing
to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the
walls of his cell. C. S. Lewis 人們無法因為拒絕崇拜而消弭上帝的榮耀,正如同一個瘋子不能在他的囚室牆壁上寫著「黑暗」就能除掉太陽。 |
Man is not made to question,
but to adore. Edward Young 人不是為懷疑而造,乃是為敬拜而造。 |
Our minds are so constituted that they cannot at one
and the same time be stayed upon the Lord and fixed upon next winter's new coat or hat. A. W. Pink 我們的心思天性就是如此,無法同時親近主又想著明年冬天的大衣或帽子。 |
Worship is as much God's due
as anything can be. William S. Plumer 崇拜勝於任何事情是上帝應得的。 |
I am called to worship a God I cannot see, but not
to submit to a God I can not know and prove. David Shepherd 我蒙召敬拜我看不見的上帝,但不是降服在一位我不知道並無法證實的上帝。 |
I say that the greatest
tragedy in the world today is that God has made man in his image and made him to worship
him, made him to play the harp of worship before the face of God day and night, but he has
failed God and dropped the harp. It lies voiceless at his feet. A. W. Trapp 我認為今天世間的最大悲劇就是上帝按照祂的形象創造人是為了敬拜祂、讓日夜在上帝面前彈奏豎琴敬拜祂,可是人未順服上帝的心意而且將豎琴丟下,讓它無聲的躺在上帝腳前。 |
Worship, then, is not part of the Christian life; it
is the Christian life. Gerald Vann 崇拜不是基督徒生活的一部份;崇拜就是基督徒生活。 |
To pray is less than to
adore. Clarence Walworth 禱告輕於崇拜。 |
Posture in worship is too often imposture. Thomas Watson 在崇拜中講究姿勢太多時候只是矇騙而已。 |