Inspirational Quotes on Worship

“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.”

“To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him?”

“To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are. ”

“It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.”

“I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.”

“Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.”

“The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our prayers, how wandering, how wavering they are! When we get nearest to God, how far off we are! When we are most like Him, how greatly unlike Him we are!”

“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.”

“Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.”

“To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.”

“If we cannot comprehend we can perhaps apprehend, at least enough to adore.”

“Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord. Worship is the heart poured out in gratitude and awe, expressing our appreciation of who He is and what He has done for us by His grace through Jesus Christ.”

“People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.”

“When we worship God as we ought that's when the nations listen.”

“Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by spectres and soothed by placebos. If there is no centre, there is no circumference.”

“Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.”

“When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.”

“It is one thing for the living water to descend from Christ into the heart, and another thing how--when it has descended--it moves the heart to worship. All power of worship in the soul, is the result of the waters flowing into it, and their flowing back again to God.”

“When one thinks of the wondrous glory of Christ, how astonishing that He can join with us! But more, when one thinks of His bringing many sons to glory at such a cost, one is lost in adoring amazement.”

“Real worship is that of the heart.”