Quotes About Worship

are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground

One sees in God only what one worships.

Through Christ, their history becomes our history; we are engrafted into the Bible's ongoing chronology. The Hebrew Scriptures become our own family narrative. The history of the Bible and the history of the Church form a single story, of which our lives—and our worship—are an integral part.

the fear of God is the reverence we give to God Almighty because He has the power and authority to give us what we do deserve. The

Most Gods don't care. About anything. Other than gaining dominance over other Gods and telling you how wonderful they are and demanding that you say the same. There's nothing like a bunch of Gods to show you how alone you really are.

If we were living in a better age they'd build a temple around a woman like that.

He was in very truth his own God, and a more splendid God than the God that stank of incense and was quartered in churches.

But perhaps we ask too much of him. Perhaps he really was only a god.

It was in that way that she has best served God.

Life is a gift. Going to church is like sending a thank-you card.

Ministering to the Lord in private is the foundation and prerequisite for leading in the public meeting.

the past few years I have approached music ministry with the mind-set of a pastor first, and a musician second.

Those who opt for contemporary worship at its best are absolutely committed to offering heartfelt, fully engaged, jubilant expressions of love and thanks to the One who so wildly loves us.

What I think God cares about is the disengaged heart. I do not think that he is particularly interested in our theories or techniques of worship except as they are effective in genuinely drawing hearts to him. Worship that is not heartfelt and authentic simply does not interest him.

worship is multiform, not uniform. God is not threatened by this reality—he ordained it; he expects it; he glories in it.

The devotional spirit is not less intense among, the pagans of the prairie than it was among the ancient Israelites and the early Christians.[128]

Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.

Even the most regular, seemingly unimportant tasks of my life must be shaped and directed by a heartfelt desire for the glory of God.

Only when awe of God rules your heart will you be able to keep the pleasures of the material world in their proper place.

Prayer is abandoning my addiction to other glories and delighting in the one glory that is truly glorious-the glory of God

If awesome things in creation become your god, the God who created those things will not own your awe. Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical

Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.

It's wrong not to be in awe of what God created, but it's even more deeply wrong when you can look at created glory without remembering God.

If praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.