Worship Quotes - Page 8

• Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

  J. C. Ryle

  Doe, Christ, Lost

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• If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

  David Foster Wallace

  Weak, Feels, Power Over Others

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Religion

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• If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.

  Henry Sloane Coffin

  Needs, Characteristics, Gracious

  Henry Sloane Coffin (1946). “The Public Worship of God”

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• No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Poverty, Neighbor

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• Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.

  Paul Billheimer

  Worship Music, Heaven, Energy

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• Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life.

  Lamar Boschman

  Giving, Benefits, Firsts

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• Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Use, Found, True Worship

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.697, Xist Publishing

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• Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?

  William C. Bryant

  Hands, Years, World

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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• Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Men, Infinite

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.116

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• 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

  Air, Voice, Singing

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.286

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• To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

  William Tyndale

  Trust, God, Faith

  William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.317

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• I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that they have come among holy people, God's people. They can testify, 'Of a truth God is in this place'

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  People, Wish, Church

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• I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.

  John Legend

  Believe, Racism, Humanity

  "John Legend Talks ‘Blurred Lines’ Case & Common’s Controversial Remarks On Ending Racism". Interview With Mesfin Fekadu, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2015.

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• We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• His desire to bless you goes infinitely beyond your own personal desire to secure His blessing. There is always peace in His presence. Do not disturb this by anxiety to know what is in store for tomorrow. Out of the very tranquility of worship will be born the guidance you need.

  Frances J Roberts

  Blessing, Anxiety, Desire

  Frances J. Roberts (2013). “Total Love”, p.53, Barbour Publishing

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• God is not regulated to 30 minutes of accessible group singing.

  Brenton Brown

  Singing, Groups, Minutes

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• The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events  into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do you worship in this mindstream called your life?

  Gangaji

  Thinking, Ideas, Events

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• Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Culture, Christ

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• Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.

  Mark Batterson

  Land, Waiting, Way

  Mark Batterson (2009). “Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God”, p.47, Multnomah

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• Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

  John Piper

  Feelings

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.88, Multnomah

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• Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers and neglect the practical implications of the gospel. No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. Fellowship with God leads straight to obedience and good works. That is the divine order and it can never be reversed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Strong, Teaching

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• We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

  Pope Clement I

  God, Christian, Letting Go

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• As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

  David Platt

  Faith, Death, God

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• As believers, you don't need to pray for a new heart, you need to pray for a new head.

  Andrew Wommack

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Andrew Wommack Ministries from Apr 12, 2013

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