Worship Quotes

Jesus lived a life of deep meditation. If thoughts and words were physical objects, meditation would be the act of holding, examining, taking apart, tasting, smelling, listening to, and savoring in order to study and become one.

~ Amy Litzelman

We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say I am the source of light. God shines through us, hence He deserves the glory; not us.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.

~ Anthony Liccione

If you put me on a pedestal, I will fall off because I can never achieve the perfection of your expectations.

~ D.s. Mixell

The Heavens declare the glory of God.Lord your unfailing love is as vast as the Heavens.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ's forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.

~ Jenn Thoman

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

O Lord, I thank you for the gift of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is always beautiful when we focus on the greatness of our God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You've to close down your umbrella when you are under a canopy. Drop your pride, give praise to God!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't compare yourself to other Christians. Compare yourself to Christ. He is the one you follow. He is the one other Christians too follow.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We stand in the awe of God’s greatness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.

~ Oswald Chambers

The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.

~ Simona Panova

If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

WORSHIP LEADERSHIP.Mere talents does not give glory to God but a humble heart.

~ Mac Canoza

The liturgy is the place where we wait for Jesus to show up. We don't have to do much. The liturgy is not an act of will. It is not a series of activities designed to attain a spiritual mental state. We do not have to apply will pressure. To be sure, like basketball or football, it is something that requires a lot of practice--its rhythms do not come naturally except to those who have been rehearsing them for years. On some Sundays the soul will indeed battle to even pay attention. In the normal course of worship, we do not have to conjure up feelings or a devotional mood; we are not required to perform the liturgy flawlessly. Such anxious effort... blind us to what is really going on.We do have to show up, and we cannot leave early. But if we will dwell there, remain in place, wait patiently, Jesus will show up.

~ Mark Galli

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

~ Criss Jami

The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who has become our food, our life, the manifestation of the Church as the body of Christ. This is why the gifts themselves never became in the Orthodox East an object of special reverence, contemplation, and adoration, and likewise an object of special theological 'problematics': how, when, in what manner their change is accomplished.

~ Alexander Schmemann

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

~ D.a. Carson

Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote, your idea of worship will be fuzzy and ill-formed. The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together. The one isn't just a headtrip; the other isn't just emotion.

~ N.t. Wright

If the Cross is God’s masterpiece of His love, then the Eucharist is the centerpiece of our worship.

~ Gangai Victor

If Jesus is not the focus, the worship is bogus.

~ Gangai Victor

There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed and wealth.

~ Ravi Zacharias

True worship can only take place when we agree to God sitting not only on His throne in the center of the universe, but on the throne that stands in the center of our heart.

~ Robert Colman

When we worship, we ascend, when we ascend we gain revelation from God.

~ Chuck D. Pierce

For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship.

~ Robert E. Webber

He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not against him but FOR him, and that apart from or even counter to what man deserves. He wants in fact to be man's partner, his almighty and compassionate Saviour. He chooses to give man the benefit of His power, which encompasses not only the high and the distant but also the deep and the near, in order to maintain communion with him in the realm guaranteed by His deity. He determines to love him, to be his God, his Lord, his compassionate Preserver and Saviour to eternal life, and to desire his praise and service.

~ Karl Barth

[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.

~ Anne Lamott

It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.

~ Dillon Burroughs

Science is a kind of worship to find the truth.

~ Debasish Mridha

The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold.

~ Basava

The power of such a mountain is so great and yet so subtle that, without compulsion, people are drawn to it from near and far, as if by the force of some invisible magnet…this worshipful or religious attitude is not impressed by scientific facts, like figures of altitude, which are foremost in the mind of modern man. Nor is it motivated by the urge to ‘conquer’ the mountain.

~ Anagarika Govinda

Work filled with inspiration is worship. A heart filled with courage is unbreakable. A life filled with gratitude is fulfilled.

~ G.g. Renee Hill

Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.

~ Samuel Rutherford

God created all living things to bring forth seed, not reproduce shrines.

~ Amy Layne Litzelman

Dance with your sacred rhythm.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

~ Criss Jami

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

~ Harold Bloom

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

~ Paul C. Nagel