QUOTES ON WORSHIPWorship is a way of living, a way of seeing the world in the light of God . . . to rise to a higher level of existence, to see the world from the point of view of God.
Abraham J. Heschel (1907–1972)
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 (1898–1963)
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. . . . The very stones would praise him if the need arose and a thousand legions of angels would leap to do his will.
A. W. Tozer (1897–1963)
Worship is the highest and noblest act that any person can do. When men worship, God is satisfied! And when you worship, you are fulfilled! Think about this: why did Jesus Christ come? He came to make worshipers out of rebels. We who were once self-centered have to be completely changed so that we can shift our attention outside of ourselves and become able to worship him.
Raymond C. Ortlund
If worship does not change us, it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy; it ends in holy obedience.
Richard J. Foster
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
God is looking for worshipers. And if the religious elite are too proud or too busy to learn to worship him, he seeks the worship of those whose lives are trapped in moral ruin.
Erwin W. Lutzer
How often Christians assume they have worshiped God simply because they have been in church! We are told that the church building is “God’s house” (an inaccurate designation borrowed from the Old Testament temple) and conclude that worship must take place there! Not necessarily. God was not pleased with the worship at Jerusalem (the Holy City). Nor is he impressed with beautiful cathedrals.
Erwin W. Lutzer
Whatever is outward in worship must come as a direct result of what is inward—otherwise, it will be form without power.
Howard Brinton
Worship isn’t listening to a sermon, appreciating the harmony of the choir, and joining in singing hymns! It isn’t even prayer, for prayer can be the selfish expression of an unbroken spirit. Worship goes deeper. Since God is spirit, we fellowship with him with our spirit; that is, the immortal and invisible part of us meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
Erwin W. Lutzer
Worship means “to feel in the heart.”
A. W. Tozer (1897–1963)
Worship is giving to God the best he has given us.
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917)
Who worship God, shall find him.
Humble love,
And not proud reason, keeps the door of heaven;
Love finds admission, where proud science fails.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
First worship God.
He that forgets to pray
Bids not himself good-morrow
Or good-day.
Thomas Randolph (1523–1590)
Many regular church attenders consistently focus their minds on sporting events, business affairs, or matters of personal interest as soon as the sermon begins. Many so-called worshipers can tell you what dress the pastor’s wife wore in the service, but cannot recall the text of the sermon or the application of the message to their lives.
Richard Owen Roberts
The worship of God is not a rule of safety—it is an adventure of the spirit.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)
Those who worship God merely from fear would worship the devil, too, if he appear.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608–1661)
We pay God honor and reverence, not for his sake (because he is of himself full of glory to which no creature can add anything), but for our own sake.
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
