Worship Quotes

“If physical objects please you, praise God for them, but turn back your love to their Creator, lest, in those things which please you, you displease Him.

If souls please you, let them be loved in God; for in themselves they are mutable, but in Him firmly established — without Him they would simply cease to exist.

Book 4: Chapter 12”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“And there’s humanity in a glimpse—we’ve always got a copper for a stone idol, but none for the beggar in its shadow.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief

“Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.”
― Paul David Tripp

“There is a profound connection between the sleep we get in our beds each night and the sacramental rest we know each Sunday in our gathered worship. Both gathered worship and our sleep habits profess our loves, our trusts, and our limits. Both involve discipline and ritual. Both require that we cease relying on our own effort and activity and lean on God for his sufficiency. Both expose our vulnerability. Both restore.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“Habits are a pattern of repeated action that are ultimately formational (for good or bad, realized or not) and this - ultimately - is worship. Liturgy is simply habit that admits itself to be worship. (paraphrase from pg. 8-9)”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“How great is God!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“سُمِّي المسلم مسلمًا لأَنَّه مستسلم، ومُنقاد لشرعِ الله ودينِه، خاضع لأَوامر الله تعالى، فالمسلم مستسلم لله لا لغيره، والمشرك مستسلم لله ولغيره، والكافر مستكبر عن عبادة الله، وكلٌّ من المشرك والمستكبر كافرٌ”
― عبدالعزيز بن عبدالله الراجحي, شرح شروط الصلاة وأركانها وواجباتها

“As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.”
― Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline

“Worship has been misunderstood as something that arises from a feeling which "comes upon you," but it is vital that we understand that it is rooted in a conscious act of the will, to serve and obey the Lord Jesus Christ.”
― Graham Kendrick

“All true worship is a response to the self-revelation of God in Christ and Scripture, and arises from our reflection on who He is and what He has done…The worship of God is evoked, informed, and inspired by the vision of God…The true knowledge of God will always lead us to worship.”
― John R.W. Stott, Basic Christianity

“Worship the wise God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Many people worship money like it’s their God. It’s not! If they worship God like they do money, they would find more happiness and joy in their life then they could possibly imagine. There's a constant blue shy feeling, waiting, something money can't buy. Amen.”
― Ron Baratono

“Many people worship money like it’s their God. It’s not! If they worship God like they do money, they would find more happiness and joy in their life then they could possibly imagine. There's a constant blue sky feeling, waiting, something money can't buy. Amen.”
― Ron Baratono

“I know it'll make me sound soft, but every time I saw her I felt like I was seeing her for the first time, like the earth only orbited the sun so it could see her from all angles.”
― Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck

“Deification of an individual is the surest way to fossilisation of his ideas. That is how rigid ideologies emerge that leave no scope for interpretation and evolution. The text of today has the lethal possibility of becoming scripture of tomorrow once the people swallow the claim of its author to be a mere scribe of God.”
― R. N. Prasher

“I do all my studying now by the pool in the Land of Uprightness, among those wonderful, tall, slender trees. I'm a Druidess in the woods--I regard trees with something more than love--worship.

And then, too, trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. no matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons. I know a hundred dear things about these trees in the Land of Uprightness that I didn't know when I came here two years ago.”
― L M Montgomery

“The taste of sex is hidden in the taste of sensuality, the taste of sensuality is hidden in the taste of worship, and the taste of worship is the actual taste of the divine/God.”
― Lebo Grand

“Blessed the Holy Name of God for all his blessings.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“বিভিন্ন ধর্মে বিধাতাকে পরিণত করা হয়েছে এক ক্রুদ্ধ হিংস্র স্তাবকতাপ্রিয় ভূস্বামীতে। আমরা কি এমন মানুষ কল্পনা করতে পারি, যে পছন্দ করে দিনরাত বন্দনা বা স্তুতি স্তাবকতা? নিরন্তর নিরর্থক স্তাবকতায় যেখানে অন্তঃসারশূন্য মানুষও ক্লান্তি ও ঘেন্না বোধ করবে, সেখানে কী ক'রে তা সহ্য ও উপভোগ করেন বিধাতা? বিশ্বাসীরা বিধাতার ওপর মহত্ত্ব আরোপ করতে গিয়ে, তাঁকে বিশাল ক'রে সৃষ্টি করতে গিয়ে তাঁকে ক'রে তুলেছে নিজেদের মতোই ক্ষুদ্র ও মহত্ত্বহীন। বিধাতা যদি সত্যিই বন্দনা চাইতেন, তাহলে তিনি শুন্য রাখতেন না মহাজগতকে; শুধু একটি ছোটো গ্রহে মানুষ সৃষ্টি করতেন না; মহাজগত ভ'রেই সৃষ্টি করতেন মানুষ, শুনতেন তাদের উচ্চকণ্ঠ বন্দনা। মানুষের বন্দনায় তাঁর কী দরকার? তিনি নক্ষত্রদের দিয়ে বন্দনা করাতে পারতেন, বন্দনা করাতে পারতেন নক্ষত্রপুঞ্জ দিয়ে। মহাজগতে সূর্য এক তুচ্ছ তারা, পৃথিবী এক তুচ্ছ গ্রহয়, মানুষ এক তুচ্ছ প্রাণী। মহাজগতের স্রষ্টা এতো তুচ্ছকে সৃষ্টি করেছেন তাঁর স্তুতির জন্যে? এটা যুক্তিসঙ্গত নয়। বিধাতা কল্পনা করতে গিয়ে মানুষ বিধাতাকে নিজের মতোই তুচ্ছ আর ক্ষুদ্র ক'রে তুলেছে।”
― Humayun Azad, আমার অবিশ্বাস

“কিন্তু ধর্মের কাছে মানুষ যা চায় তা কি তারা পায়? যা চায়, মানুষ তা পায় না; যেমন এক সময় পেতো না যাদুর কাছে। যাদু যদি তার কামনা পূরণ করতে পারতো, তাহলে মানুষ যাদুকে ছাড়তো না; ধর্মের কাছে মানুষ যা চায়, তা না পেয়ে মানুষ একদিন ধর্মও ছেড়ে দেবে। মানুষের বিধাতা আসলে সফলতা।”
― Humayun Azad, আমার অবিশ্বাস

“Hallelujah to the Holy God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There were words in excessiveness when we sat in church. All those thous and thees and manifestation. Now there's a doozy for you. I even knew when I was little that their words were falsely weighted, that god was not a bellower, but light as motes of dust, that there wasn't a definitive god but god spirits living in everything I saw around me. In the wind, the snow, the soft earthly curves of the prairie stretching ever eastward. The sound of crickets thrumming, the whistles of gophers in the warmish spring and the shrieks of redtails swirling high above me. The gods would never linger in pews stinking with selfish guilt, with all those wads of gum.”
― Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms

“There is none like God. His goodness knows no bounds.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“We must see every day of our life as an act of worship. We must see every interaction as potentially spiritual and kingdom related. To the point, we must know God's Word well enought to discern if a spiritual event is holy (from the Lord) or demonic (from Satan and his demons); remember, the adversary of our Lord is always prowling about.”
― Stephen K Moore, Superhero: Being Who God Says You Are

“Scripturally and historically, as was mentioned earlier, the church didn't really own property until the tragic day that Constantine gave it to them. Then started the big church, clergy and laity, audience and performer tradition. We have largely been shacked to this system ever since.”
― Stephen K Moore, Superhero: Being Who God Says You Are

“He continued, “If you want to follow God, you have to turn away from whatever it is you were trusting and instead turn to Him. What do you turn to when you’re having a hard time to make you feel better and to give you relief, confidence, hope, or pleasure? Whatever you turn to, that’s the thing you worship. That’s the thing you love most. Whatever is at the core of your life, that’s the thing you are actively turning to and trusting in to give meaning to your life and help you through the hard times. That thing is your functional god. If you put drugs or money or sex in the center, your wellbeing will be dependent on those things. In essence, they will rule you.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Ordinary habits shape the soul in the most extraordinary ways. (p. 6)”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“We, men, look for women to f*ck when there are no women to worship.”
― Lebo Grand

“Fools laud the figure, forgetting the fervor,
Fools laud memorizing, without realizing.
Fools laud the structure, forgetting the spirit,
Fools laud the dead, abandoning the living.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“We honor Him by calling upon Him, and by recognizing that He is the Creator, and we are the created. We honor Him by accepting the gifts He gives, even when we feel we don't deserve them. Perhaps especially then.”
― Stefanie Lozinski, Manifest