Worship Quotes - Page 7

• We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

  Barack Obama

  Friends, Gay, Blue

  Keynote address at Democratic National Convention, Boston, Mass., 27 July 2004

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• Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

  Herbert Spencer

  Hero, Political, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.461

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• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.

  Paul David Manson

  Theology, Deeper, Routes

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• Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.

  Mark Driscoll

  Sacrifice, Glory, Persons

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• The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. 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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• If you are in Christ, you've been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God.

  Paul David Tripp

  Borders, Christ, Glory

  FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Jul 21, 2012

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• Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

  J. I. Packer

  Order, True Worship, Plans

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• What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates the body of Christ?

  Geoffrey W Bromiley

  Grace, World, Body

  Geoffrey W. Bromiley (1995). “The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia”, p.1133, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, Divine, Fairs

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• And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Loss, Calamity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.85, Penguin

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• We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.

  Vicky Beeching

  Knowing, People, Church

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• We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness.

  Pete Wilson

  Loneliness, Darkness, Tears

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• To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Worship Music, Church

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• Worship leaders, let's choose to praise rather than perform when leading.

  Tim Hughes

  Leader, Praise

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• No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sacrifice, Men, Giving

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• What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

  David Platt

  People, Inspire, What If

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• We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Worship Music, Presence Of God, Worship God

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• The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Heart, Emotional, Foundation

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• When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's thoughts, things that are God-breathed, stuck in their heads. It's sad to think about a really catchy tune paired up with bad theology because that could, honestly, do a lot of damage in church.

  Laura Story

  Song, Biblical, Thinking

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

  Richard J. Foster

  Opiates, Needs, Modern Life

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

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• Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Men, Idols

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Critical Writings”, p.20

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• Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

  Brother Lawrence

  Humility, Devotion, Form

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.28, Booklassic

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• Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Acceptable

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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