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Quotes About Worship

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
~ Karl Philipp Moritz
Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
~ Simone Weil
A church that likes power likes prayer.
~ Jacob Peterson
He prayeth best who loveth best.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.
~ Timothy M. Dolan
It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.
~ Ravi Zacharias
One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
~ William Carey
Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!
~ Rumi
Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The goal of prayer is the ear of God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.
~ Cyprian
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
When you sing, you pray twice.
~ Johnny Cash
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
~ Voltaire
Puja (worship) is offering to God, prathana (prayer) is demanding from God. When we pray by offering all our karma and even ourselves to God, the prayer fruitifies.
~ Mahesh Babu
Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: to see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly, day by day.
~ Richard of Chichester
All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.
~ John Wesley
Real prayer is communion with God
~ Arthur W. Pink
If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be 'Sing your prayers.'
~ Paul Baloche
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
~ William Penn
Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.
~ Billy Sunday
In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.
~ Fulton J. Sheen