Quotes about Worship

A little act of service. Is it possible that all service is worship? The words were still in my head.

But pleasing to the eye isn't the same as pleasing to God.

Bible in Life Walking With God GENESIS 1:27—31 Genesis describes the unique nature of our relationship with God our Creator. In John 4:24, Jesus says that "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth." Christ was completely human and also completely divine. Humans, created in God's image, are spiritual creatures. We have the potential for a complete spiritual relationship with God through

Jesus is interested in a relationship with you, not a 45 minute date every Sunday morning. Make Him first in your life.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God's name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

Many churches offer more entertainment than worship, more uniformity than diversity, more exclusivity than outreach, more law than grace.

Shouldn't we be presenting an alternative to the prevailing culture rather than simply mimicking it? What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. —Mahatma Gandhi

We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God.