Worship Quotes and Scriptures
Worship Quotes and Scriptures
What is worship?
Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defines worship as:
1.To adore; to pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration.
2. To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
3. To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission; as a lover.
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Richard J. Foster
Worship is the believer’s response of all that they are – mind, emotions, will, body – to what God is and says and does. Warren Wiersbe
To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are. Brother Lawrence
Worship of the living and true God is essentially an engagement with Him on the terms that He proposes and in the way that He alone makes possible. David Peterson
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by his holiness, the nourishment of the mind with his truth, the purifying of the imagination of his beauty, the opening of the heart to his love, the surrender of the will to his purpose. William Temple
Other thoughts on worship
Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship. Richard J. Foster
God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him. Kelly Sparks
The purpose of this Christian society called the “Church” is, first: to glorify God by our worship. We do not go to church just to hear a sermon. We go to church to worship God. Billy Graham
Worship changes the worshiper into the image of the One worshiped. Jack Hayford
Worship Scriptures
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:24
O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth. Psalm 96:9
Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy. Psalm 99:9
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. Psalm 95:6
…Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Matthew 4:10
Feel free to “pin” any of the pics and share this post on any social media site, in fact, please do! I would love to know if this post inspired you in any way. Please leave a comment in the comment section below.
Join the conversation. Share your ideas or questions in the comment form below.
(c) 2015 Cheryl Cope
Cheryl Cope on Google+
Other Blog Posts You May Like:
Praise Verses to Tweet and Pin (part 1)
Praise Verses to Tweet and Pin part 2
Praise Verses to Tweet and Pin part 3
Thanksgiving Quotes and Scriptures
Inspiration to Pray part 1— quotes by famous Christians on prayer made pinnable and tweetable
Inspiration to Pray part 2—more quotes by famous Christians on prayer made pinnable and tweetable
Inspiration to Pray part 3—even more prayer quotes to tweet and pin
Inspiration to Pray part 4—even more prayer quotes to tweet and pin and to inspire you to pray more
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2015