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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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.