Quotes about Worship
In Scripture, God tells us how we should approach him in public worship. We read the Bible, sing the Bible, preach the Bible, pray the Bible, and see the Bible (in baptism and the Lord's Supper).
- Mark Dever
Our churches, too, must recover the centrality of the Word in our worship. Music is a biblically required response to God's Word, but the music God gave us was not given to build our churches upon. A church built on music - of whatever style - is a church built on shifting sands.
- Mark Dever
Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The ultimate goal of marriage and family is the glory of God. Only when marriage and family exist for God's glory - and not to serve as replacement idols - are we able to truly love and be loved. Remember, neither your child nor your husband (or wife) should be who you worship, but instead who you worship with.
- Mark Driscoll
Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.
- Mark Noll
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.
- Mark Twain
Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
- John Calvin
The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us
- Kevin DeYoung
The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.
- Reinhard Bonnke
We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.
- Stormie Omartian
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
- Marquis de Sade
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
- Martin Luther
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
- Martin Luther