W Quotes
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“Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord. Worship is the heart poured out in gratitude and awe, expressing our appreciation of who He is and what He has done for us by His grace through Jesus Christ.”
“Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.”
Source: After God's Own Heart: The Key to Knowing and Living God's Passionate Love for You
“Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight or my satisfaction. It is about my pleasure, delight, and satisfaction in God. Worship is not simply about glorifying God. It is about glorifying God by enjoying Him forever.”
“Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.”
“Worship is not about the posture of your body; worship is about the posture of your heart.”
Source: Carrying the Torch for Revival
“Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.”
“Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart. We must come in full agreement without hiding anything or disregarding His will.”
Source: Pastor To Pastor: Tackling Problems of the Pulpit
“Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God.”
“Worship is not music. We can certainly worship Him without musicians and without a song. And by the way, God does not actually seek worship. The Word tells us that He seeks worshippers. He's not looking for those who make the most beautiful music. He's looking for those who worship in spirit ... and in truth. Music is only one of the ways that he has ordained for us to express our worship. Yet too many worship leaders today spend more time honing their craft and planning / rehearsing their worship sets, than they spend on their face, alone in worship.”
“Worship is not part of the Christian life, it is the Christian life”
Source: The Seven Sweet Blessings of Christ: And How to Make Them Yours
“Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.”
“Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.”
“Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.”
“Worship is our first or foundational ministry. It is not our only ministry, but the one that all other spheres of ministry should be built upon.”
“Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit and truth.' It is kindled within us only when the Spirit of God touches our human spirit.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.”
“Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.”
Source: Wired: Student Edition of The Air I Breathe
“Worship is pure wonder.”
“Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most. That’s why worship is that thing we all do. It’s what we’re all about on any given day……….the trail never lies. We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.”
“Worship is so much more than the songs I sing. Instead, worship is in the heart that lifts the song. If you think about it, worship began when I woke up this morning. My life purpose is to give God glory through everything I do. If my life does not worship Him, my songs don't either.”
“Worship is taking time from the momentum of our lives to stop and stand before the Face of God for a few minutes. The prostrations in the ritual prayer that are the regular practice of the Islamic tradition, and which Sufis also do, include four to eight cycles of standing, bowing, and prostrating. At most, the ritual prayer takes between five and ten minutes. It‘s a deep and mindful encounter with the Infinite Face of God, not performing a ritual with rote recitations. In fact, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, „If your ritual prayer is not done with presence, it‘s not worship.“ Presence is absolutely essential to the ritual prayer. The whole normative practice of Islam, its basic practices and rituals, are a spiritual training system when properly understood […] One of our friends, a great Sufi teacher, recently said, „Everything is in the prostration.“ When our foreheads touch the ground we enter into that Divine Oblivion. It is oblivion, in the sense that we are so present with the Divine that everything else just disappears. We‘re completely there in the consciousness of the Divine, forehead to the ground, for that moment. It‘s a kind of bliss. (p. 103)”
Source: In the House of Remembering: The Living Tradition of Sufi Teaching
“Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God”
Source: The Ransomed Heart: A Collection of Devotional Readings
“Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.”
“Worship is the grand theme of the Bible.”
“Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to affirm the divine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens us at the deepest level of our being to an act which unites us most realistically with our fellow people.”
“Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.”
“Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.”
“Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.”
“Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.”
“Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.”
Source: Readings in St. John's Gospel ...
“Worship is the thank you that can't be silenced”
“Worship is the way of life for those entranced by and passionate for the glory of God.”
“Worship is to feel in the heart . . . it is an attitude and a state of mind. It is a sustained act, subject to varying degrees of intensity and perfection . . . Real worship is, among other things, a feeling about the Lord our God . . . It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner. If we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.”
“Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven.”
“Worship is transcendent wonder.”
“Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.”
Source: Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions
“Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe so that it would display the worth of His glory. And He created us so that we would see this glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it-with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. The church needs to build a common vision of what worship is and what she is gathering to do on Sunday morning and scattering to do on Monday morning.”
“Worship is when we give God His breath back”
Source: PASSION: The Bright Light of Glory
“Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.”
“Worship is Worth more than Worry.
Worship weed off weariness.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act of truly loving God. Believe in this brilliant Being, this magnificent "higher power," who not only created us but nurtures us with care and intelligence beyond our imagination, and obviously we are called to worship Him.”
“Worship isn't a feeling you wait for, it's a choice you make.”
“Worship isn't an event to attend & watch. It's a lifestyle to be lived.”
“Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can hardly read. He knows no physics or engineering to make to world real for him. No paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it. No music except television jingles. No history except tales from a desperate mother. No friends. Not one kid to give him a joke, or make him know himself more moderately. He's a modern citizen for whom society doesn't exist.”
Source: Equus
“Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.”
“Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.”
“Worship leaders have traded in their role as spiritual guides for that of cheerleaders, focusing on energizing the crowd rather than leading them into the presence of God. The stage has become a platform for performance rather than a sacred space for reverence. True worship is about surrender, adoration, and intimacy with God – not just stirring up emotions. Let's refocus on authentic worship that honors God's majesty and sparks a deeper connection with Him. When we prioritize substance over spectacle, our worship becomes more meaningful and impactful. The goal of worship leadership should be to point people to God, not just to pump up the atmosphere. Let's restore the sacredness and authenticity to our worship.”
“Worship leaders, let's choose to praise rather than perform when leading.”
“Worship means respecting all of God’s creation.”