 I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven. Author: A.W. Tozer |
| I wonder if there was ever a time when true spiritual worship was at a lower ebb. To great sections of the church, the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the public service which now passes for worship among us. Author: A.W. Tozer |
| We're here to be worshippers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker...The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it. Author: A.W. Tozer |
| Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins. Author: Alexander MacLaren |
| People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose. Author: Edmund Clowney |
| When we worship God as we ought that's when the nations listen. Author: Edmund Clowney |
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| Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by spectres and soothed by placebos. If there is no centre, there is no circumference. Author: Edmund Clowney |
| Without the heart it is not worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really a hypocrite. We may truly be said to worship God-though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity. Author: Stephen Charnock |
| Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name. Therefore, acceptable worship is impossible without preaching. For preaching is making known the name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known. Author: John Stott
Source: Between Two Worlds, Eerdmans, 1992, p. 82-83. |
| Worship is adoring contemplation of God. Author: R.A. Torrey |
| Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly. Author: Richard Cecil |
| Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, the nourishment of the mind with His truth, the purifying of the imagination of His beauty, the opening of the heart to His love, the surrender of the will to His purpose. Author: William Temple |
