O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness. Psalms 95:6-8 (KJV)
It cannot be that the instinct which has led to the erection of cathedrals, and of churches in every village, is wholly mistaken and misleading. There must be some great truth underlying the instinct of worship. > Sir Oliver Lodge.
When Christian worship is dull and joyless, Jesus Christ has been left outside – that is the only possible explanation. > James S. Stewart.
It is when only men begin to worship that they begin to grow. > Calvin Coolidge.
Many of today’s young people have little difficulty believing that God was in Christ. What they find it hard to accept is that Christ is in the church. > Ernest T. Campbell.
To worship God means to serve Him. > Fredrick Buechner.
The true inner life is no strange or new thing; it is the ancient and true worship of God, the Christian life in its beauty and in its own peculiar form. Wherever there is a man who fears God and lives the good life, in any country under the sun, God is there, loving him, and so I love him too. > Gerhard Tersteegen.
Some people in the church look like guests at a royal banquet, who couldn’t afford to be left out, but have been forbidden by their doctor to eat anything. > W. R. Maltbie.
Rejoice in him and make a fool of yourself for him the way lovers have always made fools of themselves for the one they love. A Quaker Meeting, a Pontifical High Mass, the Family Service at First Presbyterian, a Holy Roller Happening – unless there is an element of joy and foolishness in the proceedings, the time would be better spent doing something useful. > Fredrick Buechner.
The glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God. > Irenaeus.
As you worship, so you serve. > Thomas L. Johns.
See also 1 Chronicles 16:29; Luke 4:5-8; John 4:23-24.
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