Quotes about Worship

An idol is anything in the created order that is put in the place of God.

As Paul says in Romans, if you reject the biblical God, you will deify something within the created order.

According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.

God cannot be rejected without putting something else in his place.

John Calvin defines idolatry as worshipping "the gifts in place of the giver himself.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

There still remains only God to protect man against man. Either we will serve him in spirit and in truth or we shall enslave ourselves ceaselessly, more and more, to the monstrous idol that we have made with our own hands to our own image and likeness. Etienne Gilson, 20th century

the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.

God calls people to himself, but this call is no casual suggestion. He is so awe inspiring and his summons so commanding that only one response is appropriate—a response as total and universal as the authority of the Caller. Thus

To believe in Jesus is to bow twice and then to obey forever

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.