Quotes about Worship

As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

It is important to be in the 'we' of the Church, in the 'we' of the life of the Liturgy.

Nothing's too good for the Lord.

The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.

All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

I realized that for years I'd thought of love as something that would complete me, make all my troubles go away. I worshipped at the altar of romantic completion. And it had cost me, plenty of times. And it had cost me most of the girls I'd dated, too, because I wanted them to be something they weren't. It's too much pressure to put on a person.

America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers. When the pilgrims landed at Plymouth they prayed. When the Founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they invoked our creator four times, because in America we don't worship government, we worship God.

It has been said that some people go to church to eye the clothes and others go to close their eyes.