WORSHIP QUOTES II
quotations about worship
Worship is not a spectator sport. Worship is first and foremost a verb, an action. It is motivated by a desire to honor another.
KENNETH C. ULMER
"Transformational Worship in the Life of a Church", Worship That Changes Lives
I think a lot of Americans are going to be surprised when they get to heaven, and they see that God is not a white American and worship is not just white American worship. He obviously loves white American worship, but God is the One who instituted culture. God's the One who instituted nations, and we're going to be really surprised when we get there and there's an Indian flair and an African flair and a Middle Eastern flair and an American flair. That, to me, is a picture of heaven.
RICK PINO
"Musical Missionary Rick Pino Set to Rend the Heavens", The Christian Beat, March 20, 2017
How often from the steep
Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard
Celestial voices to the midnight air,
Sole, or responsive each to other's note,
Singing their great Creator?
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Worship involves a vertical fellowship between God and the worshipper, and a horizontal fellowship between worshippers.
KENNETH C. ULMER
"Transformational Worship in the Life of a Church", Worship That Changes Lives
The whole person, with all his senses, with both mind and body, needs to be involved in genuine worship.
JERRY KERNS
attributed, I Could Sing of Your Love Forever
The powerless worship Luck and Fate.
MASON COOLEY
City Aphorisms
Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Worship is a beautiful emotional expression of your love, passion and faith in God. Since when is it wrong to be emotional in our worship? Kansas City Chief fans paint their faces, spend hundreds of dollars, get off work to sit in a parking lot for hours, jump up and down and scream in their own form of worship and adoration. We cry at secular concerts. We raise our hands when our favorite team wins the game. Why would we divorce the very gift of emotions given by God to express ourselves to Him in an act of worship?
LEILANI HAYWOOD
"Why Christians Should Not Boycott the Worship Industry", Charisma News, February 26, 2016
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.
BIBLE
Hebrews 12:28
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
speech, November 2, 1940
Come, then, to this place to worship with the soul, to elevate the spirit of God. Let not this house be desecrated by a religion of show. Let it not degenerate into a place of forms. Let not your pews be occupied by lifeless machines. Do not come here to take part in lethargic repetitions of sacred words. Do not come from a cold sense of duty, to quiet conscience with the thought of having paid a debt to God. Do not come to perform a present task to insure a future heaven. Come to find heaven now, to anticipate the happiness of that better world by breathing its spirit, to bind your souls indissolubly to your Maker.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Perfect Life
Worship is the exercise of the mind in the contemplation of God in which wonder and awe play an important role in stretching and enlarging our vision.
WARREN WIERSBE
Real Worship: Playground, Battle Ground, or Holy Ground
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.
JOHN CALVIN
Institutes of the Christian Religion
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Some Mistakes of Moses
Worship is worship. It doesn't matter where you're at. It's just how you do it.
BRANDON MUEHLER
"Kansas mega churches drawing in thousands weekly", KWCH Eyewitness News, February 23, 2016
Worship is the common sense of faith in a life to come; and the hours we devote to it will assuredly be among those upon which we shall reflect with most thankful joy when all things here shall have fallen into a very distant background, and when through the Atoning Mercy our true home has been reached at last.
HENRY PARRY LIDDON
Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
I think, I find the causes of a decaying church and a wasting unbelief. And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation, than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple, to haunt the senate, or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth is not lighted by the hope of other worlds, and age is without honor. Society lives to trifles, and when men die, we do not mention them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
an address to the senior class at Divinity College, Cambridge, July 15, 1838
The mission in worship is twofold: to serve God through lively adoration and to do God's work in the world as active service.
CLAYTON J. SCHMIT
"Worship as a Locus for Transformation", Worship That Changes Lives
A glimpse of God will save you. To gaze at Him will sanctify you.
MANLEY BEASLEY
attributed, I Could Sing of Your Love Forever
What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love.
PREM PRAKASH
The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion