Quotes about Worship

Your Name is holy. May Your Name be worshiped and honored by Your people everywhere. May our lives in no way bring disrespect or dishonor to your great Name. And may all peoples of the earth come to revere Your sacred Name.

I've heard it said this way: "You'll never know that Christ is all you need, until He's all you have. And when He's all you have, you'll find out that He truly is all you need." So let's keep singing those songs, reminding ourselves and others that His grace really is enough and that all our hope truly is found in Christ alone.

That to which your heart clings and entrusts itself is, I say, really your God.

An idol is anything in the created order that is put in the place of God.

As Paul says in Romans, if you reject the biblical God, you will deify something within the created order.

According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.

God cannot be rejected without putting something else in his place.

John Calvin defines idolatry as worshipping "the gifts in place of the giver himself.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

There still remains only God to protect man against man. Either we will serve him in spirit and in truth or we shall enslave ourselves ceaselessly, more and more, to the monstrous idol that we have made with our own hands to our own image and likeness. Etienne Gilson, 20th century

the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.