Worship Quotes

Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we rceive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And it enables us to do these things best--if you like, it 'works' best--when, through long familiarity, we don't have to think about it. As long as you notice, and have to count, the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance.

~ C.s. Lewis

...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...

~ John Geddes

I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

~ John Piper

...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...

~ John Geddes

Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways of worship, and “new” music, being quite willing to toss out their entire “old-fashioned” Christian heritage.

~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.

I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.

~ K. Howard Joslin

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

~ Ann Voskamp

Although there are things that can be done to enhance corporate worship, there is a profound sense in which excellent worship cannot be attained merely by pursuing excellent worship. In the same way that, according to Jesus, you cannot find yourself until you lose yourself, so also you cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself. Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship worship rather than worship God. As a brother put it to me, it’s a bit like those who begin by admiring the sunset and soon begin to admire themselves admiring the sunset.

~ D.a. Carson

Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about.

~ N.t. Wright

Propositions are true or false. Images are not.

~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.

We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.

~ Fred Hammond

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

~ Fairuza Balk

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

~ Karl Pilkington

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

~ Clive Bell

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

~ Cyril Connolly

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

~ Tyler

Wonder is the basis of worship.

~ Thomas Carlyle

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

~ John Morley

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

~ Emile M. Cioran