These worship quotes will inspire you. Worship is the act of showing respect and love for a god especially by praying with other people who believe in the same god or the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging worship quotes, worship sayings, and worship proverbs.
Famous Worship Quotes
- “In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you’re pretending or putting on. It’s got to be an overflow of your heart…Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.” ~ Matt Redman
- “To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.” ~ Brother Lawrence
- “The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.” ~ R. C. Sproul
- “Worship is forgetting about what’s wrong with you and remembering what’s right with God.” ~ Mark Batterson
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“Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.” ~ Oswald Chambers
- “Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.” ~ Elisabeth Elliot
- “The heart of God loves a persevering worshipper who, though overwhelmed by many troubles, is overwhelmed even more by the beauty of God.” ~ Matt Redman
- “You become like what you worship” ~ N. T. Wright
- “It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“When God is at the center of your life, you Worship, when He’s not, you Worry.” ~ Rick Warren
- “The church that can’t worship must be entertained. And leaders who can’t lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped if we do not ourselves worship him.” ~ Matthew Henry
- “Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.” ~ Louie Giglio
- “If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.” ~ Evelyn Underhill
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“God is not regulated to 30 minutes of accessible group singing.” ~ Brenton Brown
- “You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don’t. Everybody worships; it’s just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.” ~ Paul David Tripp
- “God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.” ~ John Ortberg
- “Worship is a believer’s response to God’s revelation of Himself. It is expressing wonder, awe, and gratitude for the worthiness, the greatness, and the goodness of our Lord. It is the appropriate response to God’s person, His provision, His power, His promises, and His plan.” ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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“Worship changes the worshiper into the image of One worshiped” ~ Jack W. Hayford
- “Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.” ~ John Wimber
- “To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Worship doesn’t happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.” ~ Matt Papa
- “Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God.” ~ Erwin W. Lutzer
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“Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.” ~ J. C. Ryle
- “Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.” ~ Richard J. Foster
- “Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved” ~ N. T. Wright
- “Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.” ~ Louie Giglio
- “The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.” ~ Billy Graham , Praise and worship quotes
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“Songs of worship arise from a life of worship.” ~ Tim Hughes
- “If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.” ~ John Stott
- “Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.” ~ John Stott
- “It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.” ~ Oswald Chambers
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“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Don’t let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices… sing also with your conduct.” ~ Saint Augustine
- “The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.” ~ Francis Chan
- “True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.” ~ William Barclay
- “The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.” ~ John Owen
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“If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it’s not about you. You’ve been born into a life that is a celebration of another.” ~ Paul David Tripp
- “The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.” ~ Dan B. Allender
- “Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Worship songs can’t just be rooted in culture – they won’t be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture.” ~ Matt Redman
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“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.” ~ John Piper
- “Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.” ~ Richard J. Foster
- “Worship is love responding to love.” ~ Judson Cornwall
- “The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.” ~ Timothy Keller
- “Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.” ~ Richard J. Foster
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“In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ~ John Bunyan
- “Worship is about something we do. It involves sacrifice. But at the heart of the gospel is this truth, we are called and chosen by God to join in with the dance of the trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” ~ Tim Hughes
- “That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from the creation that recognizes its maker, the creation that acknowledges the triumph of Jesus the Lamb. That is the worship that is going on in heaven, in God’s dimension, all the time. The question we ought to be asking is how best we might join in.” ~ N. T. Wright
- “Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!” ~ Andrew Murray
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“All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.” ~ John Stott
- “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.” ~ D. A. Carson
- “The Church is the Church in her worship. Worship is not an optional extra, but is of the very life and essence of the Church. …Man is never more truly man than when he worships God. He rises to all the heights of human dignity when he worships God, and all God’s purpose in Creation and in Redemption are fulfilled in us as together in worship we are renewed in and through Christ, and in the name of Christ we glorify God.” ~ J. B. Torrance
- “When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.” ~ Lamar Boschman
- “Regardless of the reaction of others, one thing is certain: True worship and devotion will make our lives fragrant and will perfume the environment around us. Our homes, our churches, even our places of work will bear the sweet scent of our devotion. Most important, the Lord Jesus will be pleased. And ultimately that is all that really matters.” ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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“I desire only Him and to be wholly His.” ~ Brother Lawrence
- “A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Worship helps us find who we are and why God has placed us here on the earth. When we bow in God’s presence with worship, only then are we made complete.” ~ Judson Cornwall
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“God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Life is filled with things you don’t expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him.” ~ Laura Story
- “I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer