quotations about worship
Worship therefore manifests itself both in adoration and in action, both in the individual believer and in corporate worship, which is worship offered up in the context of the body of believers, who strive to align all the forms of their devout ascription of all worth to God with the panoply of new covenant mandates and examples that bring to fulfillment the glories of antecedent revelation and anticipate the consummation.
D. A. CARSON
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Worship by the Book
With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
"Individuality", On the Gods and Other Essays
Silent worship is an opportunity to seek one's inner spirit and find a powerful sustenance.
STAR STAFF
"Quakers meet for silent worship", The Winchester Star, March 31, 2017
The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful form of worship in the morning gives, as it were, the keynote to every temper for the day, and atunes every spirit to harmony.
WASHINGTON IRVING
"Christmas Day"
One of the fundamental purposes of man is to worship God. One sees that in a person's constant drive and need to have to worship something or someone. The problem is not that man is not inclined to worship, but that man is often misdirected to worship the wrong thing.
PATRICK MABILOG
"4 misleading concepts on worship", Christian Today, February 5, 2016
Worship is essentially and radically eschatological. By singing new songs, we continue to anticipate the death of death, the coming kingdom, and the ultimate resurrection. By refusing to sing anything new, we symbolically forget about the forward trajectory of Christ's salvation.
JONATHAN AIGNER
"8 Reasons Churches Should Sing New Songs", Patheos, February 17, 2016
It is the pleasing of God that is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God's own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him.
R. C. SPROUL
A Taste of Heaven: Worship in the Light of Eternity
The purpose of worship is to get the gospel to someone.
DEVIN BACHMAN
"Battle of the Praise Bands", Georgia College Colonnade, February 25, 2016
Simply put, worship is an it-is-well-with-my-soul experience.
ROBERT WEBBER
Signs of Wonder: The Phenomenon of Convergence in Modern Liturgical and Charismatic Churches
Performance worship substitutes entertainment for liturgy. Our new worship language even reflects it. We once had sanctuaries, but not we have "auditoriums." We once had chancels, now we have "stages."
JONATHAN ALGIER
"Performance Music: Worship?", Patheos, March 13, 2017
The purpose of leading worship is not to be a rock star--it is to serve.
MELISSA SCHLEICHER
"Worship woes", The Echo, February 5, 2016
Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Worship is a necessary means of giving God our hearts and of expressing the true feelings of one's heart. It is the expression of love, gratitude, praise and adoration of the only and absolutely adorable God by a heart of faith, trust, penitence, submission, and humility. God was love before, but sending his Son was the manifestation or expression of it. Likewise, worship is our means of expressing the love that we feel in our hearts.
HEATHER GARNER
"Glorifying God by our worship", The Clarion, February 3, 2016
If my soul is not engaged in worship, it is even as though I worshipped not.
CONFUCIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Worship may take many forms. Down through the centuries, Christians have worshiped by singing antiphonally in Greek, chanting in Latin, singing lustily in German, plaintively crooning Celtic melodies, shouting in the wild, primitive harmony of the "Sacred Harp" hymnal, clapping hands and swaying to a rhythmic spiritual, praying with hands raised and eyes lifted or with hands folded and eyes closed. Worship has taken many forms reflecting the complexity of human experience. The outward form of worship is not of primary importance. What matters in worship is whether God is pleased with the worship we offer him, and whether or not we focus our attention on Jesus' presence in our worship.
DAVID WICK
"What worship involves", Spencer Daily Reporter, March 9, 2017
It is very good for us to meet in this place for Public Worship. A peculiar blessing seems to be promised us, when we do so. Christ pledges Himself to be in the midst of us.
ASHTON OXENDEN
Sermons on the Christian Life
Friends, worship is as essential in order to accomplish God's purposes in human life as is faith. John 4:23-24 suggests to us that "the Father seeketh such to worship Him." God longs for the adoration and expressions of love and praise that come from honest and sincere hearts.
HEATHER GARNER
"Glorifying God by our worship", The Clarion, February 3, 2016
To worship is to declare ourselves open to another, to a mystery revealed in a people, a love which claims us.
TERRANCE W. KLEIN
"The Place Where I Worship", America Magazine, February 13, 2016
Oh! must it not be a sight at which angels rejoice--to see crowds of worshippers pressing into the courts of the Lord?
ASHTON OXENDEN
Sermons on the Christian Life
If we are going to worship in Spirit, we must develop a spirit of worship.
MICHAEL CATT
attributed, The Spirit, Soul & Body of Worship