Quotes on Worship

These have been inspiring me lately, so I thought I'd share them here! I so often find that there just aren't any words to describe what it's like or what it means to worship God...it can really only be expressed with our hearts and with our spirits. But I guess that doesn't stop me from trying or from meditating on things like this!

It is in the process of being worshiped that God communicates His presence to men.
--C.S. Lewis

We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
--J.I. Packer


God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to Him. He must disclose to us who He is before we can offer Him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.
--John Stott


A true love of God must begin with a delight in His holiness.
--Jonathan Edwards

If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to your friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven if you're not ecstatic about God now!
--Keith Green

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word...in prayer...in worship.
--Chuck Swindoll

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
--William Temple

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.
--Dave Hunt

We're here to be worshipers 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.
--A.W. Tozer

If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
--Erwin Lutzer

God is God; you are but one of His creatures. Your only joy is to be found in obeying Him, your true fulfillment is to be found in worshiping Him, your only wisdom is to be found in trusting and knowing Him.
--Sinclair B. Ferguson

Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish Him. We seek nothing but His exaltation. We focus on nothing but His goodness.
--Richard J. Foster

Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence.
--Sadhu Sundar Singh

When it comes to satisfying our spiritual appetites, there is no such thing as excess. There are no restraints placed on us by God. There are no rules of temperance or laws requiring moderation or boundaries beyond which we cannot go in seeking to enjoy Him. We need never pause to inquire whether we've crossed a line or become overindulgent. You need never fear feeling too good about God.
--Sam Storms

The Father and the Son have sought to redeem us that we may become worshipers. Jesus said that the Son of Man came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost. In John 4 he reveals the purpose for His seeking. The Father sent Christ to seek and save for the specific purpose of producing worshiping people.
--John MacArthur

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
--John Owen

Wow do I love all of this. Worship is LIFE! The amazing privilege we have to worship Him, the invitation to enter into the most holy place where His very Presence dwells so humbles and awes me and is far and away the greatest blessing He has given or will ever give me - to find all my delight and joy in Him, to be found whole and made FREE in His Presence, to lift up and glorify His Name with a heart of praise! What a precious and priceless gift, what a matchless and glorious existence! I love that I was MADE to worship Him, and worship I will...with all my being...now and for all eternity!! Thank You Lord!!!

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
--Psalm 29:2