"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping, we are becoming." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Worship is the intentional attitudes and actions of focusing on God. It is the life-discipline we ought repeatedly to exercise and develop. It grows out of the foundational motive of deep and wonder-based gratitude to God for His salvaging and sustaining us." ~Byron Spradlin, President of Artists in Christian Testimony
"Worship is the act and attitude of wholeheartedly giving ourselves to God, spirit, soul and body. Evangelism is the activity of proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ and calling mankind to wholehearted devotion to him. Worship Evangelism, then could be defined as: wholehearted worshippers calling the whole world to wholehearted worship. You could describe the relationship like this: If you truly meed God, you will worship; and if you truly worship, others will be drawn to God. The Kingdom of Priests is the international, trans-cultural, wholehearted, Spirit-filled community of reigning worshippers in heaven and on earth."
~Gerrit Gustafson, Director of The Worship Group
"The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance."
~C.S. Lewis
"A glimpse of God will save you. To gaze at Him will sanctify you." ~Manley Beasley
"As John 4:23 says, Its time, as worshipers of God, to give him all we have. For when he is exalted, everything about me is decreased. So many times we stand in the way of really stepping into the secret place of worship with God. Just abandon tradition and the "expected" ways of Praise & Worship and get lost in the holy of holies with the sole intention of blessing the Father's heart." ~Jessica Leah Springer
"When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart."
~Lamar Boschman
"Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life." ~Graham Kendrick
"How quickly we forget what it's all about. We can get so strategic that we worship so our church will grow, not because He is worthy. But we're doing all this because God is worthy and we want to worship Him." ~Tommy Walker
"The first element in worship is adoration. The Hebrews expressed this by their posture and not alone by their word. For they prostrated themselves before God. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. They did not come with an easy familiarity into the presence of God, but were aware of His greatness and majesty, and came with a sense of privilege to His house."
~H.H. Rowley
"Whenever His people gather and worship Him, God promises He will make His presence known in their midst. On the other hand, where God's people consistently neglect true spiritual worship, His manifest presence is rarely experienced." ~Ralph Mahoney
"Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth."
~Paul E. Billheimer
"When we worship together as a community of living Christians, we do not worship alone, we worship with all the company of heaven." ~Marianne H. Micks
"Unseal my lips, O Lord, that I may praise You. You would not be pleased with sacrifices, or I would bring them. If I brought burnt offering, You would not accept it. The sacrifice you want is a broken spirit. A broken and repentive heart, O God, You will not despise." ~Psalm 51:15-17
"To worship God in spirit requires that we be alive on the inside, experiencing the life He gives by spiritual birth. Without His life, you can never truly worship. And to worship in truth means to worship God as He really is, and brining more than our words-bringing words amplified by an authentic life that flows from being spiritually alive within." ~Lou Giglio
