To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

William Temple
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  2. Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so. - D.A. Carson

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  1. Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

  2. Religion is what you do with your solitude.

  3. The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

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  5. If your prayer is selfish the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all but it is sure to be there.

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