When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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.
We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
I may worship the image of the Lord; but that act is worthless if it is not accompanied with devotion. In the absence of devotion, the idol will just be a piece of stone, and so shall I; and the worship will only mean that a stone is facing a stone!
How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.
Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
No opposing quotes found.