Quotes about Worship

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)

We may think we are centering our lives on God when we are really making Him a means to self-esteem.

Oh, what a grand design! to make our joy the echo of your excellence. To make our pleasure proof that you now hold the place of Treasure in our lives. To make the gladness of our soul the essence of our worship, and the mirror of your worth. To make yourself most glorified in us, oh God, when we are satisfied in you. How could I, Lord, have ever been to so blind to think think that being loved by you means making much of me and not yourself?

Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is the notion of morality as the disinterested performance of duty. But when worship is reduced to disinterested duty, it ceases to be worship. For worship is a feast.

The magnifying of Christ in the white-hot worship of all nations is the reason the world exists.

Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to the world.

Living to magnify Christ is costly.

the main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

The way we honor Christ in death is to treasure Jesus above the gift of life, and the way we honor Christ in life is to treasure Jesus above life's gifts.

praise comes from God as we renounce the pursuit of praise from others.

Seeing the glory of Jesus Christ in the gospel awakens joy.

The problem is not a battle between contemporary worship music and hymns; the problem is that there aren't enough martyrs during the week. If no soldiers are perishing, what you want on Sunday is Bob Hope and some pretty girls, not the army chaplain and a surgeon.