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• Songs of worship arise from a life of worship.

  Tim Hughes

  Song, Worship Songs, Arise

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• It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Song, Voice, Singing

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.45, SCM Press

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• Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

  John Wimber

  Personality, Church, Comfort

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• If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

  John Stott

  Order, Circles, May

  John Stott (1992). “The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening”

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• Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.

  Richard J. Foster

  Heart, Focus, Honor

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• Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

  Richard J. Foster

  Obedience, Holy, Ends

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Valentines Day, Crush

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• The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Feet, Sound

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

  Paul David Tripp

  Celebration, Born, Reminders

  FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Jun 09, 2013

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• Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Heart, Exercise, Emotional

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• To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.

  D. A. Carson

  Christian, Mean, Reality

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• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Worship Music, Delight, Psalms

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

  William Barclay

  Men, Spirit, Speak

  William Barclay (1956). “The Gospel of John”

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• You become like what you worship

  N. T. Wright

  Idols, Idol Worship, Humanness

  N. T. Wright (2011). “Revelation for Everyone”, p.92, Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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• The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

  Dan B. Allender

  Passion, Self, Desire

  Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman (1992). “Bold love”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Grace, Rehearsal

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.21, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him.

  Laura Story

  Trust In God, Life Is, Continuing

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• Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

  Andrew Murray

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.

  Matt Papa

  Eye, Guitar, Guy

  Twitter post from May 08, 2012

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• So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Long, Political

  Ends and Means (1937) ch. 8

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• Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.

  Oswald Chambers

  Blessing, Giving, Given

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.23, Discovery House

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• That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from the creation that recognizes its maker, the creation that acknowledges the triumph of Jesus the Lamb. That is the worship that is going on in heaven, in God's dimension, all the time. The question we ought to be asking is how best we might join in.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Heaven, Triumph

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• The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

  John Owen

  Christian, Believe, Foundation

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• Worship songs can't just be rooted in culture - they won't be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture.

  Matt Redman

  Song, Culture, Scripture

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2012

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