Quotes about Worship
The sweet hour of prayer as a mid-week breather in the church has been reduced to a sweet twenty minutes of prayer.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Christians have become passive spectators in worship rather than active participants. By and large, we come to church to "watch the show" rather than to engage and participate.
- Leonard Sweet
Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
- Ellen White
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
- Calvin Coolidge
We bowed our heads together, and I prayed and then Nimmie prayed. Hers was a beautiful, simple prayer, beginning in faith and repentance and ending with joy and praise.
- Janette Oke
Many of the girls wear simple dresses to church. We do not make a point of 'dressing up,' nor do we study one another to see what is being worn. Nor does God. It's our hearts He views as we enter the doors to His church. Not our clothing.
- Janette Oke
Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.
- Peter Kreeft
He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.
- Martin Luther
Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.
- AW Tozer
rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you" (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18).
- Stormie Omartian
When we forget that, we unwittingly reduce God's ways to our ways and God's thoughts to our thoughts. Our hearts become factories of idols in which we fashion and refashion God to fit our needs and desires.
- Miroslav Volf
Ritual observance without moral rectitude is worse than empty; it is a counterfeit religious coin with which a worshipper wishes to procure divine and human approval for behavior that deserves censure (see Isa. 58:3—7).
- Miroslav Volf