Quotes about Worship

If praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.

Tender, heartfelt worship is hard for a person who thinks of himself as having arrived. No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.

The question is not if we worship, but what we give our hearts to worship.

Sturdy contentment that can weather the storms of difficulty and want is always rooted in worship.

This is what sin does to us all. At a deep and often unnoticed level, sin replaces worship of God with worship of self. It replaces submission with self-rule. It replaces gratitude with demands for more. It replaces faith with self-reliance. It replaces vertical joy with horizontal envy. It replaces a rest in God's sovereignty with a quest for personal control. We live for our glory. We set up our rules. We ask others to serve our agenda.

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.

The spiritual reality for many of us is that the one thing is not the Lord. And the danger in that reality is this: your one thing will control your heart, and whatever controls your heart will exercise inescapable influence over your words, choices, and actions. Your one thing will become that which shapes and directs your responses to the situations and relationships of your daily life. If the Lord isn't your one thing, the thing that is your one thing will be your functional lord.

It is dangerous to live without your heart being captured by awe of God, because awe of God is quickly replaced by awe of you.

When amazing realities of the gospel quit commanding your attention, your awe, and your worship, other things in your life will capture your attention instead.

An idolatrous heart will produce idol words, words that serve the idol that grips us.

Spiritual adultery occurs when I give the love that belongs to God alone to something or someone else.

Here is one of the most beautiful fruits of grace—a heart that is content, more given to worship than demand and more given to the joy of gratitude than the anxiety of want.