Genuine Worship Quotes

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

We can express our worship to God in many ways. But 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.

God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?