Quotes About Prayer And Worship

#1. Mind the Light; come under Holy Obedience.
pg.33 in Prayer and Worship

Douglas Steer

#2. These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.

John Fowles

#3. I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.

Gregory A. Boyd

#4. Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

Billy Graham

#5. A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

Sherry Turkle

#6. A worshipping Church or a prayer group is a magnet that draws the Lord and His people to connect with each other!

Gangai Victor

#7. Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

John Calvin

#8. Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#9. Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.

Francis Collins

#10. Prayer is primarily for loving and worshiping God. If you would seek first His kingdom and just fellowship with Him, you'd find your needs already provided.

Andrew Wommack

#11. The art of work ... It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

Wilferd Peterson

#12. He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.

Elton Trueblood

#13. The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

Rick Warren

#14. It was only at her prayers that she felt able to think calmly and clearly either of Prince Andrey or Anatole, with a sense that her feelings for them were as nothing compared with her feel of worship and awe of God.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.

Dan Kimball

#16. Recognize all mankind as one, whether Hindus or Muslims The same Lord is the creator and nourisher of all: Recognize no distinctions between them. The monastery and the mosque are the same, So is Hindu worship and Muslim prayer. Men are all one!

Amardeep S. Dahiya

#17. Prayer is not merely coming to God to ask something from him. It is above all fellowship with God and being brought under the power of his holiness and love, till he takes possession of us and stamps our entire nature with the lowliness of Christ, which is the secret of all true worship.

Andrew Murray

#18. A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, 'O' God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee'?

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

#19. It's easy to be so caught up with ministry that we neglect times of solitude, individual worship, and prayer. Perhaps you need to redesign your schedule to find time for earnest prayer.

Anonymous

#20. I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#21. The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our prayers, how wandering, how wavering they are! When we get nearest to God, how far off we are! When we are most like Him, how greatly unlike Him we are!

Charles Spurgeon

#22. If we could see, even for a split second, the depths of God's love for us - all we'd want to do is worship and prayer would never seem a chore.

Mark Hart

#23. The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen; to pray is to see and breathe.

Gangai Victor

#24. He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.

James Hogg

#25. Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit.

Hugh Black

#26. Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#27. When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

Oswald Chambers

#28. Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD" (Psalm 27:14). God promises to strengthen your heart as you learn to wait upon Him through prayer, meditation, and worship. "O

Lloyd Hildebrand

#29. The whole existence is a temple ... the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.

Rajneesh

#30. Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.

E. M. Bounds

#31. Through prayer and study, worship and service, we regularly digest God's word into the core of our being, where it feeds and transforms us. Continue

Richard J. Foster

#32. Prayer is a divine worship due to none but God the Father, Son, and Spirit.9

Douglas Bond

#33. of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent nonpsalmic "worship" based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who,

N. T. Wright

#34. Know that when you praise and worship God and appreciate fully all that He is, you open up a channel through which more of His love pours into your heart.

Stormie O'martian

#35. Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

David Jeremiah

#36. Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.

Andy Murray

#37. Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#38. Everyone prays to his own god, that's why miracles happen to some and not to others

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#39. It (prayer) dispels frivolity and drives away all skin-deep forms of worship, and makes worship a serious and deep-seated service, impregnating body, soul, and spirit with its heavenly infusion.

E. M. Bounds

#40. Puja (worship) is offering to God, prathana (prayer) is demanding from God. When we pray by offering all our karma and even ourselves to God, the prayer fruitifies.

Mahesh Babu

#41. They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,' and so, under the pretext of restoring it to its primitive form, they corrupted the order of the liturgy in many respects to adapt it to the errors of the Innovators.

Pope Leo XIII

#42. It was fear that first made the gods25 - fear of hidden forces in the earth, rivers, oceans, trees, winds, and sky. Religion became the propitiatory worship of these forces through offerings, sacrifice, incantation, and prayer.

Will Durant

#43. It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#44. every time she remembered something painful, she could lift it up with her hands in worship or prayer and God would take her brokenness like an offering.

Nancy Alcorn

#45. 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

#46. I have ascended to the highest in me, and look, the Word is towering above that. I have descended to explore my lowest depths, and I found Him deeper still.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#47. Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#48. Prayer is an act of praise and worship to God

Lailah Gifty Akita

#49. Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

John Calvin

#50. It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so much as speak or think of any worldly business, lest we make God's service an idle ,perfunctory, and lazy recreation. The same I may say of closet prayer.

Thomas Brooks

#51. If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

Plutarch

#52. Patient dedication to the ordinary and often tedious disciplines of corporate and family worship, teaching, prayer, modeling, and mentoring have been eroded by successive waves of enthusiasm.

Michael S. Horton

#53. For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#54. 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

#55. Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies.

Alvin Boyd Kuhn

#56. As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#57. We the Jainists of India say every day in our prayer, I worship all perfected souls, I worship all spiritual masters, I worship all spiritual instructors, I worship all holy men and women in the world.

Virchand Gandhi

#58. Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

J.I. Packer

#59. As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.

Evelyn Underhill

#60. I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

Susan B. Anthony

#61. We have a blood bought covenant with God that says we are His and He is ours. We are loved, and have a right to call to Him, call on Him and have His presence in our lives through worship, bible study and prayer - p. 14

Wanda L. Scott

#62. Going to church is not a sign of going to God, if you think he is omnipresent, he is right there in your soul and bedroom.

Michael Bassey Johnson