Worship Quotes - Page 13

It’s easy to sing the song, but to pray the lyrics from deep within… that’s worship!

It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God’s principles in them

This wasn't a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.

We should see our calling as our life’s major assignment

Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you.

Your calling is in what you can do with human interference

While Johns (Martin Luther King's predecessor as pastor in Montgomery) agreed with Dexter's general disdain for emotionalism, he was very fond of traditional spirituals, believing they represented a part of their history they ought to embrace and celebrate.

Employment sells out the future life

The sacrifices we make to stay healthy, to look good, the tasty foods we skip, the guilt trips, the exercising - all these things require great discipline, care, and even a paradoxical, self-denying self-love of sorts in order to be properly executed. However it is regretful that so many of us today are not as passionate about our spiritual holiness as we are about our physical health. They are indeed both important - we should worship in every aspect of our lives - and one even, in a sense, entails the other. Although, this disproportion in said priorities is still very much expected: we humans have always taken a liking to trendiness and the temporal side of things, doing what is judged vainly in the eyes of man before that which is judged vitally and eternally in the eyes of God (i.e. "cleaning the outside of one's cup while leaving a filthy inside"). But in a way, it all goes to show that the man who fully hates discipline hates himself fully; for within the spirit is where The Holy One judges true wellness or malady.

The vicious circle of life is employment

We’ll stand before the piles of stones that used to be weapons, and we’ll build an altar.

The purpose of life has eternal consequences

Pray more often and read and obey The Holy Scriptures in The Holy Bible.

God uses His people as instruments for breakthrough

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.

The spiritual muscles I hadn't used for decades began to acquire some tone, and since they were Catholic muscles too, it was natural to look for a church to work out in.It was hard. Appalling though the predations exacted on the monastic liturgy were, they were nothing compared to the desecration exacted on the secular. Latin was gone entirely, replaced by dull, oppressive, anchorman English, slavishly translated from its sonorous source to be as plain and "direct" as possible. It didn't seem to have occurred to the well-meaning vandals who'd thrown out baby, bath, and bathwater that all ritual is a reaching out to the unknowable and can be accomplished only by the noncognitive: evocation, allusion, metaphor, incantation—the tools of the poet.

True worship can only take place when we agree to God sitting not only on His throne in the center of the universe, but on the throne that stands in the center of our heart.

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.

(Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.

You can only derive pleasure from work when it is in the sphere of your calling

We do not need them. They would hinder rather than help our praise. Sing unto him. This is the sweetest and best music. No instrument like the human voice. What a degradation to supplant the intelligent song of the whole congregation by the theatrical prettiness of a quartet, bellows, and pipes! We might as well pray by machinery as praise by it.

Never become bitter just because you were rejected by men

Fulfilling purpose is the major key to being productive in life

You are living to the fullest when you live to discover and fulfill your purpose

True worship comes when we learn to close our eyes and focus only on Him.

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

In the midst of the turbulence, lift up your voice and praise God. He will fight the battle for you.

We must let God be Himself in us. This means that we must let Him be Himself in others too. We ought not to judge the style of another person’s worship.But worship that is elitist or is reduced to the level of popular entertainment, worship that is emotional or aesthetic is worship in name only. It has the external form without the reality. What we long for is living worship. But how does this come about?Our churches should not be places where the unregenerate come on Sundays because they “like the worship.” Our churches ought to be places where the unregenerate feel uncomfortable because it is the Spirit who is important and who comes first. Our controlling principle must be obedience to the Spirit—no matter where He leads us.Psalm 37:4 is true for all of us, whomever we are or whatever we want. But when we delight ourselves in the Lord, some of our desires may wither away and be replaced by new ambitions. So it will not do to envisage a definite goal concerning the form our worship must take. We must first of all be sure that we are delighting ourselves in the Lord and then see what God does.

There is no one that should be disqualified from fellowshipping with God

You cannot fellowship with God when you disqualify another person from fellowshipping with you

Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?

It is practically a matter of life or death for a True Cock Worshiper to taste pre-cum.

We only perceive God when we receive people

If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms.

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

Time spent adding value is not wasted

A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your responsibility towards them? ... To assume that these visitors are really like you, that there are no real difference between you and them, and that the highest goal possible is that you and the other members of your congregation will become intimate friends with them and invite them into the private spaces of your life.

There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed and wealth.

People-based service is God-based service

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.

...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...

The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.

You need to live a life of service to make your life an effective one

To pray is to praise.

Becoming an object of worship is to serve God for what you can get from him

Man is the centrality of God’s purpose on earth

Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny

Our service as believers is not complete without fellowship with people

Man is most free when he is most guided.

Your gift or calling enables you to ask the question of what to do

We can never have Knowledge (Gnan) without worship (bhakti). Such knowledge would be considered shushka-gnan [unproductive knowledge]. It cannot be considered True Knowledge.

The service to God is our service to humanity

The longing for Joy is in itself Joy. When he recalled when he had experienced Joy, he was, in that recollection, experiencing Joy anew, though he knew it not. Joy was not a state; it was an arrow pointing to something beyond all states, something objective yet unattainable – at least in our earthly existence.

Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

We are carriers of God

Love requires fellowship and relationship with people

...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled...

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass