Quotes About Worship

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them. (Luke 2:20)

I so look forward to the day, Jesus, when every knee will bow and every tongue confess that you are Lord, to the glory of God the Father. It's going to be a loud and large day. But this Christmas Eve I say to myself, "Be still, my soul . . . behold calm glory, savor mild mercy, worship your newborn King with quiet certainty." I pray in Jesus' great and gracious name. Amen.

Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. (Ps. 43:5 NIV)

Thank you for the Bible, your written Word, through which you reveal yourself and feed us with the riches of the gospel. Thank you for prayer, meditation, and corporate worship, by which you meet and fellowship with us. Thank you for the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper, these tangible expressions of your covenant love and grace.

With harps of God in their hands . . . they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations! Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed." (Rev. 15:2–4)

Father, because of past grace, present grace, and future grace, I want to live with bowed knees and palms up toward you. I seek to worship other things less by loving you more.

Jesus, take my humble praise and purify it, magnify it, and cause it to be a sweet aroma in your heart.

There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child [Jesus] to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem. (Luke 2:36–38 NIV)

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.

There are many, many angels, more than there are human beings. They stand before the throne of God and praise Him. At the same time, they are among us, with us. Angels are real. And they are here.

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.

Chapel services on race day have a calming effect. It's a nice time for us to worship and try to get the message and hear some music and have a little fellowship together before we get to racing.

There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.

Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Expression, expression is the thing - in art. I do not care what it expresses, and I cannot most always sometimes tell, generally, but expression is what I worship, it is what I glory in, with all my impetuous nature.

It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite--but they all worship money.

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

Their garment? Have they but one? Ah, good your Worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have not two bodies each.