Quotes about Worship
To pray well one must pray much.
- Georgia Harkness
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
- John Calvin
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.
- Oswald Chambers
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
- Victor Hugo
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
- Oswald Chambers
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
- JI Packer
Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.
- Martin Luther
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
- Evelyn Underhill
Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.
- Mark Driscoll
Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.
- David Jeremiah
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
- JI Packer