quotations about worship
Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.
MADAME GUYON
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The Treasury of David
By lifting our hands we symbolically receive everything God is doing in our lives.
BOB SORGE
Exploring Worship: A Practical Guide to Praise & Worship
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
Essays
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
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
In worship, man ascribes worth to God.
DAVID WICK
"What worship involves", Spencer Daily Reporter, March 9, 2017
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
So many times we stand in the way of really stepping into the secret place of worship with God. Just abandon tradition and the "expected" ways of Praise & Worship and get lost in the holy of holies with the sole intention of blessing the Fathers heart.
JESSICA LEAH SPRINGER
attributed, Made in God's Image to Live for His Glory
That worship which is directed by divine precept is performed without the desire of reward.
BUDDHA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Christian worship has recognizable parts and any attempt at worship renewal that ignores or rejects the biblical and historical foundations will eventually fail. Christian worship can be both formal and informal and still be genuine worship. Yet, both formal and informal worship ought to be done in humility by worshippers who are constantly in search for the true meaning of worship.
GARRY E. MILLEY
"A little bit of liturgy ... please!", Christian Week, February 25, 2016
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
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.
GRAHAM KENDRICK
attributed, A Heart of Worship: Experience a Rebirth of Worship
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
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship."
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Stranger in a Strange Land
Those who believe that Christians, Muslims, and Jews worship the same god tend to argue that imperfect worship is still a form of veneration. The Trinity may be the true, revealed form of the one deity, but Jews and Muslims, as peoples who trace their religious traditions back to Abraham (all that matters is that they say they do), in fact do pay homage to the same divinity. In short, while Christians have the fullness of revelation, their shared patrimony with Jews and Muslims makes for a special relationship, a love of the same god, something not shared with Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, pagans, and others.
CHASE PADUSNIAK
"Christians, Muslims, and Jews, Oh My!", Patheos, March 30, 2017
So shall they build me altars in their zeal,
Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel:
Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell,
Written in blood--and Bigotry may swell
The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!
THOMAS MOORE
Lalla Rookh
Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
The Philosophy of Ingersoll
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
THOMAS BROOKS
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary