Quotes About Worship

Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.

Abiding fully means praying much.

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

To pray well one must pray much.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

All our blasphemies are only little prayers.

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.