Worship Quotes

Music enables an ability of divine expression transcending any words.

~ Temi Peters

The place where music and worship meet is like a divine mystery of sorts.

~ Temi Peters

All music has a message and a spirit behind it.

~ Temi Peters

When the music is birthed from a place of worship it carries a spirit of worship.

~ Temi Peters

When the lyrical content is based on the word of God it becomes covenanted.

~ Temi Peters

The heart of service is grace of belonging.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers.

~ Anita Anand

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will…for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.

~ John Piper

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.

~ Karl Barth

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

~ Joseph Campbell

The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

~ Billy Graham

The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.

~ Agona Apell

Once more, the joyful character of the eucharistic gathering must be stressed. For the medieval emphasis on the cross, while not a wrong one, is certainly one-sided. The liturgy is, before everything else, the joyous gathering of those who are to meet the risen Lord and to enter with him into the bridal chamber. And it is this joy of expectation and this expectation of joy that are expressed in singing and ritual, in vestments and in censing, in that whole 'beauty' of the liturgy which has so often been denounced as unnecessary and even sinful.Unnecessary it is indeed, for we are beyond the categories of the 'necessary.' Beauty is never 'necessary,' 'functional' or 'useful.' And when, expecting someone whom we love, we put a beautiful tablecloth on the table and decorate it with candles and flowers, we do all this not out of necessity, but out of love. And the Church is love, expectation and joy.

~ Alexander Schmemann

The apostle only commands that each action and ceremony of God's worship be decently and orderly performed, but gives us no leave to excogitate [contrive] or devise new ceremonies, which have not been instituted before. He has spoken in that chapter of assembling in the church, prophesying and preaching, praying and praising there. Now let all these things, and every other action of God's worship, ceremonies and all, be done decently and in order.

~ George Gillespie

I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.

~ Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.

Thus [the altar] brings heaven into the community assembled on earth, or rather it takes the community beyond itself into the communion of saints of all times and places. We might put it this way: the altar is the place where heaven is opened up.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.

~ C.s. Lewis

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man is generally worshipped as a god then he is a god. And if a god ceases to be worshipped he is nothing.

~ Robert Graves

The becoming attitude for us to take is that of godly fear, implicit obedience, and unreserved resignation and submission. But not only so: the recognition of the sovereignty of God, and the realization that the Sovereign Himself is my Father, ought to overwhelm the heart and cause me to bow before Him in adoring worship. At all times I must say “Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in Thy sight.

~ Arthur W. Pink

I can't imagine that the God of the universe is limited to our ideas of God. I can't imagine that God doesn't reveal God's self in countless ways outside of the symbol system of Christianity. In a way, I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

~ Martin E. Marty

My heart is filled with profound gratitude to God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Your worship is proportional to your communion with God and how you are free with Him.

~ Paul Gitwaza

I remembered Patel’s words, “Surrender is not giving up, it is worship.” “Show me how to step,” I said, “so that it pleases you. Make me one with you and also this land. Be with me.

~ Richard Payment

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

~ Woodrow Wilson

...Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.

~ Rebecca Wells

Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.

~ Margaret Atwood

Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises.

~ C.e.m. Joad

That girl has done things to your head.'He pats my back, 'Don’t pretend she’s not crawling inside of yours.

~ James W. Bodden

I so often feel terrible that I am not offering the worship God is worthy to receive. My worship is so inadequate and so fickle. What I am learning is that God is receiving the worship that God is worthy to receive. The Father is receiving it from the Son; the Son is receiving it from the Father. And I am invited - I am drawn by the Spirit - into that altogether worthy worship! God is being glorified quite well, thank you. God being rightly glorified is not my burden. It is happening - and you and I are being moved by the Spirit to enter into it.

~ Darrell W. Johnson

Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!

~ André Gide

Much water has flown under Tiber's bridges, carrying away splendour and mystery from Rome, since the pontificate of Pius XII. The essentials, I know, remain firmly entrenched and I find the post-Conciliar Mass simpler and generally better than the Tridentine; but the banality and vulgarity of the translations which have ousted the sonorous Latin and little Greek are of a super-market quality which is quite unacceptable. Hand-shaking and embarrassed smiles or smirks have replaced the older courtesies; kneeling is out, queueing is in, and the general tone is rather like a BBC radio broadcast for tiny tots (so however will they learn to put away childish things?) The clouds of incense have dispersed, together with many hidebound, blinkered and repressive attitudes, and we are left with social messages of an almost over-whelming progressiveness. The Church has proved she is not moribund. ‘All shall be well,’ I feel, ‘and all manner of things shall be well,’ so long as the God who is worshipped is the God of all ages, past and to come, and not the idol of Modernity, so venerated by some of our bishops, priests and mini-skirted nuns.

~ Alec Guinness

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Prayer is an act of praise and worship to God

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is the privilege of the new Jerusalem which is above, that there is no temple therein, Rev. 21.22, no ministry, no preaching, no sacraments in heaven, but God shall be all in all. An immediate enjoyment of God in this world without ordinances is but a delusion. In the church triumphant prophecies shall fail, 1 Cor. 13.8; but in the church militant, despise not prophesyings

~ Thessalonians