Worship Quotes

While Johns (Martin Luther King's predecessor as pastor in Montgomery) agreed with Dexter's general disdain for emotionalism, he was very fond of traditional spirituals, believing they represented a part of their history they ought to embrace and celebrate.

~ Troy Jackson

Whatever confronts your faith can be a test but if it stands to oppose the content of your personality and the validity of your convictions then it's threat.

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

~ John Calvin

She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.

~ Jeremy Camp

Service is the highest form of worship.

~ Debasish Mridha

John Calvin called the Book of Psalms ‘an anatomy of all parts of the soul.’ All the range of emotions are expressed, the Psalms weave an emotional fabric for the human soul. These inspired lyrics take us by the hand and train us in proper emotion. They lead us to emotional maturity.

~ Kevin Swanson

If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one under your Yule tree.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

~ John Piper

The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith.

~ Kevin Swanson

All we need to release our inner God is a pulpit and an audience, both of which the Internet supplies in great abundance. Too bad that the corollaly to being in God mode in cyberspace is an explosion of narcissism and self-centeredness.

~ Elias Aboujaoude Md

When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God's agenda, we are focusing on our own. God's agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is not.

~ James Macdonald

All our time spent making lists would be better spent painting, or writing, Or singing, or learning to speak stories. Sometimes I feel as though the Church has a kind of pity for Scripture, Always having to come behind it and explain everything, put everything into actionable steps, acronyms and hidden secrets, as though the original writers, and for that matter the Holy Spirit Who worked in the lives of the original writers, were a bunch of you literate hillbillies. I think the methodology God used to explain His Truth is quite superior. My life is a story, more than a list. I don't feel that a list could ever explain the complexity of all this beauty.

~ Donald Miller

Down on my knees again. Worship isn’t enough.”Peter leaned forward and rubbed his forehead against Charlie’s. “I’m going to like this,” he murmured. “Daily services. Hourly services.

~ Gordon Merrick

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.

~ James Macdonald

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.

~ James Macdonald

Repentance is the highest form of worship that a man can give to God.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

On the Sivaratri day after performing the routine, the devotee shall go to the temple of Siva and perform worship.

~ Sushil Singh

A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

And morning came… It still comes. Our God is here, Emmanuel, among us, always coming towards us, always standing behind us, always standing up for us, always standing with us in solidarity in communion asking us to come with Him now as disciple, as follower, as believer, as a friend, as intimate beloved child of God, now and forever.

~ Megan Mckenna

God is not looking for incredibly high notes, intricate riffs or award winning ad-libbing. God is looking at the heart.

~ Temi Peters

Worship is not about having a fantastic voice.

~ Temi Peters

This philosophy of spiritual formation through the consumption of external experiences creates worship junkies — Christians who leap from one mountaintop to another, one spiritual high to another, in search of a glory that does not fade.

~ Skye Jethani

All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.

~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Poetry in the soul ennobles the insignificant. Something in us does yearn for the ideal.

~ Rt Llizo

We worship the same God and we carry the same sins.

~ Kameron Hurley

even there a shining is flowing from all the stonesthough the eyes are not yet made that can see it

~ W.s. Merwin

The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was Gods desire at Sinai - thst everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other.

~ Rob Bell

She was worshiping under the blue sky, to the jubilant chanting of the birds.

~ Jean Webster

While we must not fall into the gnosticizing trap of seeing the world as only ideal, without any reference to the physical and tangible universe we inhabit, neither should we commit to crass literalism devoid of imagination and poetry.

~ Rt Llizo

We should know and celebrate God with our whole person. While too many Christians neglect to serve God with the mind, others cultivate only their minds and neglect the emotional aspects of worship.

~ Craig S. Keener

I believe we were created for ecstasy. And redeemed for it, at considerable cost. Certain vagrant moments are, moreover, clues to the narrative structure and texture of things.

~ Daniel Berigan

For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship.

~ Iain Pears

Worship isn’t just a concept or idea— it is a real encounter at appointed times with the one true God in Christ through the Holy Spirit. If all the ideas about worship today can’t be translated into real plans for dialoguing with God, what good are they?

~ Constance Cherry

The flow of the anointing oil provokes intense worship

~ Thea Harris

मय्यावेश्य मनो ये मां नित्ययुक्ता उपासते।श्रद्धया परयोपेतास्ते मे युक्ततमा मताः॥॥१२- २॥Best but all are those that be,Absorved in My full faith truly,Devote themselves but absolutely,To My worship - ever diligently.12. 2

~ Munindra Misra

Of what did Job repent? His wonder was too small.

~ Leighton Ogg

You'll never grab the wonderful with your feet on the ground.

~ The Afters

God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art.

~ Michael Card

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

~ Greg Laurie

(Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.

~ Larry Eskridge