Worship Quotes - Page 7

We glorify God when we celebrate people’s gifts

Gain great values by converting your time

God is a God of appreciation

Worship the God with your whole heart.

Although there are things that can be done to enhance corporate worship, there is a profound sense in which excellent worship cannot be attained merely by pursuing excellent worship. In the same way that, according to Jesus, you cannot find yourself until you lose yourself, so also you cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself. Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship worship rather than worship God. As a brother put it to me, it’s a bit like those who begin by admiring the sunset and soon begin to admire themselves admiring the sunset.

God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely.

Break free from the contract of employment

WHEN SIN HINDERS YOUR WORSHIP.God will never delay His promise.You have delayed Him."..However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8b

I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.

We have a tendency to worship great people but do not adapt their ideas in our lives.

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion.

The way you spend your time daily determines how effective your life will be

Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.

Don’t neglect your calling all in the name of employment

Stop trying to make a living and begin to live

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!

In medieval India, the Hindu Vaishnava system of bhakti-yoga (devotional yoga) developed highly sophisticated categories of relation (rasa) to God, including santa (awe and reverence), vatsalya (parental attitude toward God), dasya (servant of God), sakhya (being friends and playmates with God), and madburya (passionate, romantic love).

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

Celebrating people is a form of love

You must live a life of love to live an effective life

we become like that which we worship.

O Lord, I thank you for the gift of life.

Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.

Uplift your soul with music.

Your net worth determines how valuable you are in the sight of men

God’s image is in us all, so you can’t regard God when you disregard His people

You only work right when you are fulfilling the essence of your creation

Your calling is buried in your background on earth

Life is given for increase and multiplication of the glory of God

All music has a message and a spirit behind it.

We disqualify ourselves from communicating with God when we refuse to open our hearts to people

We should know and celebrate God with our whole person. While too many Christians neglect to serve God with the mind, others cultivate only their minds and neglect the emotional aspects of worship.

If Jesus is not the focus, the worship is bogus.

It's easy to get thousands of people to come to your Church. Easy. Just have good entertainment. And so you go to worship services and you're entertained by music, the lights, the action...you're entertained. The preacher comes out, he has lots of funny stories or heart-rending stories and you'll live contented. You live satisfied emotionally. I'm for numbers, I'm for reaching people for Christ. But when you become numbers-driven, then everything in the worship service is aimed at that. If you have numbers, you have to have big Churches. If you have big Churches, you gotta have big debts. So you have to get people to come, you gotta entertain them, and cause them to be emotionally satisfied. So, we're back into this man-centeredness that has destroyed worship service in the 20th century.

We stand in the awe of God’s greatness.

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

The heavens declare the glory of God.The heavens declare the majesty King.The heavens declare the marvellous Lord.The heavens declare the mighty Saviour.

When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. "Mommy, God's really showing off today!

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

I remembered Patel’s words, “Surrender is not giving up, it is worship.” “Show me how to step,” I said, “so that it pleases you. Make me one with you and also this land. Be with me.

You get divine blessings when you love and cherish both those who love and hate you

When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!

The glory of the New Covenant Temple is the glory of Christ Himself – a spiritual glory that is only obscured by outward, external, typical, ceremonial, and fleshly elements.

Direct your attention to men and find ways to put smiles on their faces

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

What is the difference between aradhana (worship) and bhajana (to be one with)? Aradhana (worship) means the attention will go over and over again there, and bhajana (oneness) means continuous engrossment. One is to do aradhana (worship) and bhajana (oneness) for only one’s own Self; everything else will carry on naturally.

O Lord, be magnified for your wondrous works.

When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.

Your calling is your natural area of concentration

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

Man is not made for the Sabbath. Rather, the Sabbath is made for man

It’s not about who they are, but about God’s principle

Always let people see a reflection of God in you

God is in people

True worship leaders worship the Lord at all times and use songs only when necessary.