Gold Nugget 171 - Worship Is No Proof
Men crowd churches, attend to religious ceremonies, and contribute to religious institutions purely with the idea of avoiding hell and getting to a happier world than this. They do not serve God for naught. Selfishness, which is bad everywhere, is never worse than when engaged in religion. …
When religion is attended to as a matter of form, when sentiments are expressed without conviction, services rendered without self-sacrifice, the insincerity is an insult to Omniscience. … Abounding worship is no proof of abounding virtue and abounding godliness.
The Pulpit Commentary, Amos p. 80, Amos 4: 4-5, (D. Thomas)
Gold Nugget 171
Worship Is No Proof
