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Back To the Content Page Join the WTT Facebook Page Follow WTT On Twitter Get the Those WTT Daily Quotes! Enjoy all those favorite quotes anytime you desire and post on your own site, Facebook or Myspace. Enjoy! Some Daily Quotes correspond with writings found in the new Blog Devotional Page. "His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me." - JB Torrance "worship...is evoked by Christ, through the Spirit, in such a way that He is the One who acts in us and through us, so that our worship becomes real worship in Spirit and in Truth." - JB Torrance "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." - A.W. Tozer "Worship is recognizing God for who He is; it is ascribing worth to Him; it is God's people telling Him about the worth they see in Him." - Don Weaver “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” - Amy Carmichael "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world." - Martin Luther "If the corporate worship in the church leaves people unchanged, the church is not really worshipping." - John MacArthur "To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God." - AW Tozer "Our greatest expression in worship to God is obedience." - Billy Foote "All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him." - Martin Luther "The person who would worship God must therefore have a faithful commitment to the Word of God." - John MacArthur "When our hearts are too heavy to exult with praise, we can still worship God by doing His will." - Mark D. Roberts "When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power." - Catherine Jackson "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." - Henry Ward Beecher "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot "God gives us the grace to accomplish what He calls us to do. His commands are also His promise of victory." - Floyd McClung Jr. "God is Someone who creates something out of nothing. He takes emptiness and creates wholeness, He takes darkness and speaks light. Because of this, we can come to God empty and weak knowing that He takes us and with His power makes something out of nothing." - Vicki Beeching "Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship." - N.T. Wright "The Lord loves holiness and transparency, and I think that if we are to worship Him properly and lead others to do the same, our day to day lives have to reflect that." - Kathryn Scott "Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life." - William Law "Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us." - Martin Luther “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 [on church worship] "an authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our community to voice things back to God. If it's unsuccessful in that, then it's just self-indulgence." - David Crowder "Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things...and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise." - James R. Miller "I can write some songs with some clever lyrics all day long -- and they may be great -- but if it's not lining up with the Word of God, and if it's not really speaking to people's hearts about who God is, then it's pretty empty, you know?" - Meredith Andrews "We magnify Him who is worthy above all others and adore Him simply because of who He is." - Jack Hayford "God hath given unto you Christ Jesus, the greatest gift He had; and since your heart is laid out for Him, He will with Him give you all things that are good for you in their season." - William Guthrie of Fenwick (1665) "What is it that God has given you to do well? Be grateful for that. While we're busy envying someone else's talents, we forget about what God has given us...Stop viewing yourself as one of the have-nots. It's not true. In God's eyes there are no have-nots." - Rory Noland "God hath given unto you Christ Jesus, the greatest gift He had; and since your heart is laid out for Him, He will with Him give you all things that are good for you in their season." - William Guthrie of Fenwick (1665) "Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see." - William Newton Clarke "Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection." - Watchman Nee "It makes sense that the first word of Jesus from the cross is a word of forgiveness. That's the point of the cross, after all. Jesus was dying so that we might be forgiven for our sins, so that we might be reconciled to God for eternity." - Mark D. Roberts “The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That’s what God did. At the loss of His Son’s life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift – the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.” - John Piper "Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity." - Matthew Henry "The presence of His indwelling is my rest. Tend sheep and feed on His faithfulness. To delight in the Lord is to commit to His trust and believe He is true and true to His promises." - Branon Dempsey "God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper." - Thomas Talmage (1902) "Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them." - Matthew Henry "When we realize how desperately we need God, and how God is faithful far beyond our desperation, we can’t help but offering our lives to him in fresh gratitude." - Mark D. Roberts "I seek the will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined...If the Holy Spirit leads us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them." - George Muller "The nature of worship...is to offer God worship from the depths of our inner beings in praise, prayer, song, giving, and living, always based upon His revealed truth." - John MacArthur "The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen." - Lancelot Andrews (1626). "I learned as never before that persistent calling upon the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times, there is simply no other way." - Jim Cymbala "God likes His people to believe that there is nothing too hard for Him...We are all the time limiting God's power by our own ideas. Let us get our eyes off one another and fix them upon God. There is nothing to hard for Him." - Dwight L. Moody "The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study" - Charles R. Swindoll "Music is a tool. Lighting is a tool. Power point is a tool. Getting those things right is not the goal. God is the goal. Those are just tools. And we can real easily turn into worshippers of all the tools, rather than remembering that this is simply a tool to get the job done which is to help connect people with God and to help inspire people." - Lincoln Brewster "The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the Divine Author makes a true revelation of His Word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment." - Jean-Pierre de Caussade "Approach the Bible not only as a book which once spoken, but a book which is now speaking. God's speaking is in the continuous present." - A.W. Tozer "The church is described as belonging not to the people by whom it is constituted...nor to the districts to which they belong...but rather to the one who has brought it into existence (that is, God) or the one through whom this has taken place (that is, Christ)." - Robert Banks "Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man." - Erwin McManus "Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire." - Matthew Henry "It is ours to offer what we can. God's to supply what we cannot." - Saint Jerome (c.420) "Worship involves nothing less than offering up our whole lives to God so that all we do is in conformity with God's character and standards rather than with the attitudes and values of the world." - Rick Muchow "This road we travel is not so much about the finish line as it is about the community you run the race with. When a community keeps their eyes on the bigger picture they remember that this ministry is not their ministry, it's God's." - Derek Williams "if we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater." - George Muller "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving." - St. Francis of Sales "Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come." - AW Tozer "Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than weakness. It is power to do nothing. It is the strength that holds strength in check. It is the strength that prevents the blundering activity which is entirely false and will make true activity impossible when the definite command comes." - G. Campbell Morgan "Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you." - Corrie Ten Boom "All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him." - Martin Luther "Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence." - A. W. Tozer "Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen." - Peter Marshall "In His wisdom God does not show us all that lies ahead. So we enter a New Year to live it day by day. What is past is past. Today we start anew, and what we do today will make our life for tomorrow."  - William T. Hanzsche "Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts are heavy seek the joy of your presence. We are your people, walking in darkness, yet seeking the light. To you we say, 'Come Lord Jesus!'" - Henri Nouwen "I believe God, through His Spirit, grants us love, joy, and peace no matter what is happening in our lives. As Christians, we shouldn't expect our joy to always feel like happiness, but instead recognize joy as inner security -- a safeness in our life with Christ." - Jill Briscoe "Give me the Love that leads the way / The Faith that nothing can dismay / The Hope no disappointments tire / The Passion that'll burn like fire / Let me not sink to be a clod / Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God" — Amy Carmichael (Advent) "The event of Christ is the only event in human history that promises relocation and centering, meaning and purpose. This promise and its fulfillment evoke passionate and heartfelt praise and thanks, especially for those aware of their own brokenness and the healing which Christ brings into their lives." - Robert Webber "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts a shadow of our burden behind us." - Samuel Smiles. "Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace." - Karl Barth "Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes." - Claude Debussy "Advent is the season of the church year that ignites that longing in our hearts. Before we rush into “Happy Holidays,” we pause and let longing rise up within us. Throughout Advent we catch glimpses of a better world." - Mathew Woodley “Christianity has always been the hope of God through Jesus played out in the lives of real people living in real circumstances.” - Doug Pagitt "The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long." - Warren Wiersbe "Those will soon come to make nothing of God that will not be content to make him their all." - Matthew Henry (1714) “To be hungry is not enough; I must be really starving to know what is in his heart towards me. When the prodigal son was hungry he went to feed upon husks, but when he was starving, he turned to his Father.” - J N Darby "A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent. " - Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!" - Henry Ward Beecher "True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him." - George R. Hendrick "Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God."  - Diana Robinson "God created us to be channels of blessing, but our ability to receive the resources with which He wants us to bless others, depends on our being able to give then away - freely, faithfully, generously." - Jack Hayford "Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to his love, and the future to His providence." - St. Augustine of Hippo “The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving...God gave the best gift – the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.”  - John Piper "Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection." - Watchman Nee “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” - Amy Carmichael "And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made." - Alfred Edward Housman "At that moment, I cried out to God and lifted those burdens to the Lord and said, "Lord Jesus, I can't change me or the mess I've gotten myself into--but you can!" And you know what? He did change me!" - Dennis Jernigan "In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation...Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts." - John Chisum “And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.” – Abraham Lincoln "You have made us for yourself, and our hearts find no rest until they find it in You." - St. Augustine of Hippo "Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness." - Jack Hayford "Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven." - Henry van Dyke "God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself." - Francois Fenelon “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.” - St. Francis of Assisi "To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now." - Henri Nouwen "If the vessel of our soul is still battered by winds or by storm, let us call on our Lord who rests therein. He will soon calm the sea." - Bro. Lawrence of the Resurrection (1691) "The glory of friendship is...the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Father is looking for worshipers. So if you are looking for God and just can't seem to find him, then stop what you are doing and worship Him - and He will come and find you." - Joseph Garlington "We never know what ripples of healing we set in motion by simply smiling on one another." - Henry Drummond "Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last." - Publilius Syrus "We are all strings in the concert of God's joy." - Jakob Bohme "The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine...Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus." - Hudson Taylor "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world." - Martin Luther "Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see." - WIlliams N. Clarke (1912) "God seeks from us not nice words, but intimate relationship, even and especially when that relationship is being refined in the fire of adversity." - Buddy Owens "I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live." - Eccl. 3.12 "God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other." - Watchman Nee. "God is not looking for alms; God is looking for action. He is not just looking for our loose change - He's looking for a tighter contract between us and our neighbor." - Bono "The work of God happens when the people of God labor." - Mark D. Roberts God gives us grace to accomplish what he calls us to do...when we come to the end of what is impossible for us, then we can see God do the impossible" - Floyd McClung Jr. "The Bible speaks of a time when all tears shall be wiped away. But it makes no mention of a time when we shall cease to smile." - J.D. Eppinga (2008) "God created the world out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, he can make something out of us." - Martin Luther "It’s difficult to be haughty and proud when a hard physical reminder of what pride cost the Savior casts a shadow on your own personal spotlight.” - John Fischer "When our hearts are too heavy to exult with praise, we can still worship God by doing His will." - Buddy Owens "Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things...He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise." - JR Miller (1912) "Grant us so to die daily to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his resurrection;" - Book of Common prayer "Christ engaged the powers of darkness first, and foiled them, which animates us for our conflicts; and it is in him that we are more than conquerers. - Matthew Henry (1714) "Christ comes to daily life and work, and turns our failure to new vision. For your love and goodness we give you thanks, O God." - Bosco Peters "When our strength comes from you, it is strength indeed; but when our own strength is all we have, it is feebleness. You give refreshment and true strength."- Augustine of Hippo (430) "God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals himself." Frederick Buechner "Character is more important to God than worldly success. You will derive more contentment from being the person God wants you to be than being successful in the eyes of the world." - Rory Noland "God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear the faintest whisper...so close up that when you pray to him, it is more a kiss than a whisper." - TDW Talmage (1902)  "As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word." - Floyd McClung Jr. "God creates out of nothing - wonderful, you say; yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful. He makes saints out of sinners." A.G.Kierkegaard (1855) "God is a specialist when the anguish is deep. His ability to heal the soul is profound...but only to those who rely on His wounded Son will experience relief." - C.Swindoll "A storm puts a man on his guard and obliges him to exert his utmost efforts to avoid a shipwreck." - St. Jerome (c.420) "Our true value is not what we are worth in ourselves, but what we are worth to God, and that worth is bestowed upon us by the utterly gratuitous love of God." - William Temple (1944) "To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God." - AW Tozer "I pray God may open your eyes and let you see what hidden treasures he bestows on us in the trials from which the world thinks only to flee." - John of Avila (1569) "In solitude we discover that being is more important than having, and that we are worth more than the result of our efforts." - Henri Nouwen [Ps. 91:1-2] "If no one in the congregation is singing, it doesn't matter how good the worship band is." - J. Michael Walters "Honesty and wordiness are not the same thing. Before an awesome God there is also a time for quiet." - Buddy Owens (Eccl. 5.2)  "If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical." - Ed Stetzer "God can use our musical gifts to affect people emotionally, but these never mediate his presence. Only Jesus can do that." - Bob Kauflin "The church was not designed to be a reservoir, ever-receiving and retaining for itself God's spiritual blessings, but rather a conduit, conveying them on and out to others everywhere." - Robert H. Glover (1947). "I desire only Him and to be wholly His." - Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection (1691) "Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray." - George Buttrick (1980) "As they make music they will sing, All my fountains are in you." - Ps. 87.7 "Believing God's promises the Christian is taken through difficulties of every shape and size - and arrives safely." - Richard C. Halverson "If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God." - Henry Sloane Coffin "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow." - Calvin Coolidge "God is forever seeking to speak Himself out to His creation...He is, by His nature  continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice." AW Tozer (1963) "Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise." - Charles Spurgeon (1892). "When I hear of Christ, an image of a man hanging on a cross takes form in my heart, just as the reflection of my face naturally appears in the water when I look into it." - Martin Luther "Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens." - Ps. 68.19 "If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God." - H.Coffin "God does not show us the whole way but only the next step. His promise is, "I will counsel you with my eye upon you." - Ingrid Trobisch (1926-) "It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved." - Henri Nouwen "Grace alone which God supplies, strength unknown He will provide, Christ in us our Cornerstone, we will go forth in grace alone." - "Grace Alone," Brown/Nelson (c.1998) "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 "If we are going to worship in Spirit, we must develop a spirit of worship." - Michael Catt "Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen." - J.B. Phillips (1982) "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 "Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise." - Don McMinn "When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart." - Lamar Boschman "As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life." - Richard Foster "As in Creation, the Lord walks through the Holy Scriptures seeking man." - St. Ambrose (397) "God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart." - Izaak Walton (1683) "Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand." - St. Augustine of Hippo (430) "Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening." - 1Sam. 3:9 "Remember, God is not impressed with eloquence. He just wants honesty. And what he wants most from you in prayer is you." - Buddy Owens "He that commands faith, holiness and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with His word, that He may have all the praise." - Matthew Henry "We too can worship with gladness when we lift our eyes above our momentary afflictions and focus on the innumerable blessings of eternity." - Roberts/Owens "let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water." - Heb. 10:22 "Consecration is handing God a blank sheet to fill in with your name signed at the bottom." - M.H. Miller "If you are looking for God and cannot find Him, stop where you are and worship Him as he will come and find you." - Buddy Owens "When we have nothing left but God, then we become aware that God is enough." - Agnes Maude Royden (1956). "It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid the breaths of the seven gifts of the Spirit. It is natural for it to bear Christian fruit." - Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) "His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice."- John Stott "We worship God, not merely through song and ceremony, but through lives fully devoted to him as holy living sacrifices. What is God calling you to surrender and to worship Him right where you are?: - Branon Dempsey "When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn." - Brian McLaren "Worship is recognizing God for who He is; it is ascribing worth to Him; it is God's people telling Him about the worth they see in Him." - Don Weaver "God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine." - David Nicholas (1978) "Biblical worship finds God and will also find our neighbor." - Mark Roberton “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 (Engaging with God, pg. 20) “Inspire others to live their lives for the glory of God.” - Paul Baloche "Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before." - Vance Havner "Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling," - 2 Cor. 5.2 "Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world." - Floyd McClung Jr. "Worship changes the worshiper into the image of the One worshiped" - Jack Hayford "When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul." - Ps. 94:19. "When I said, "My foot is slipping," your love, O Lord, supported me." - Ps. 94:18 "Giving is the outward expression of love in the heart of every Christian. Our spiritual health depends on that expression of love, or else, the love itself will wither and die." - Clarence W. Hatch (1960) "The most valuable thing the Pslams do for me is to express that same delight in God which made David dance." - C.S. Lewis "True revelation of the fact of the Spirit's indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian." - Watchman Nee (1972) "Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul." - Francis J. Roberts "Complete honesty means speaking the truth while at the same time living by the truth of love's preeminence." - Mark D. Roberts, Dare To Be True "If we have been truthful in our words and deeds, then we will have earned the trust of our neighbors. They will be inclined to belive us when we speak of God's grace in Christ becuase we are people who tell and live the truth." - Mark D. Roberts "Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship." - N.T. Wright "If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings." - Brian D. McLaren "Church music needs to sound like the world and not vice versa." - Stan Endicott "Titles and positions in the church means less when we reach out to the world around us...we need to level the relational field between the world and the Church." - Derek Williams "I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." - Phil. 3:14 "Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him." - Amy Carmichael (1951) "The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God." - Marva Dawn "The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you." - Hilary of Poitiers (368) "To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us." (A. W. Tozer. The Pursuit of God. Christian Publications. 1948. pg. 9). "The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all." (A. W. Tozer. The Pursuit of God. Christian Publications. 1948. pg. 17). "The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshipping men. ... We have lost our spirit of worship and our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adoring silence." (A. W. Tozer. The Knowledge of the Holy. The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life. New York: Harper and Row. 1961. pg. 6). "In many churches the art of worship has markedly declined. The so-called hour of worship has become a time when mind and emotions are anesthetized into neutral. Out of habit, church obligation, affection for the minister, peer pressure, family togetherness, patriotism, or community expectation, people sink into their usual pews." (Leslie Flynn, Worship: Together We Celebrate. Wheaton: Victor Books. 1983. pg. 11) "The Church has slipped into a philosophy of 'Christian humanism' that is flawed with self-love, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, and self-glory. There appears to be scant concern about worshipping our glorious God on His terms. So-called worship seems little more than some liturgy (high or low) equated with stained-glass windows, organ music, or emotion-filled songs and prayers. If the bulletin didn't say 'Worship Service,' maybe we wouldn't know what we were supposed to be doing." (MacArthur, John, Jr., The Ultimate Priority. Chicago: Moody Press. 1983. Preface, viii.). "If the bulletin didn't say 'Worship Service,' maybe we wouldn't know what we were supposed to be doing." - John MacArthur Christendom has initiated its own specially educated and ordained priesthood, whose presence is indispensable to 'administer the sacraments.' These men, robed in gorgeous vestments, from within a roped off 'sanctuary,' stand before a bloodless 'altar,' with a background of burning candles, crosses and smoking incense, and 'conduct the worship' for the laity. With the use of an elaborate prepared ritual, with stereotyped prayers, and responses from the audience, the whole service proceeds smoothly and with mechanical precision. It is a marvel of human invention and ingenuity, with an undoubted appeal to the esthetic; but a tragic and sorry substitute for the spiritual worship which our Lord declared that His Father sought from His redeemed children." (Gibbs, A.P., Worship. Kansas City: Walterick. n.d., pgs. 97.98.) "Whenever the method of worship becomes more important than the Person of worship, we have already prostituted our worship. There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ." (Cornwall, Judson, Worship As Jesus Taught It. Tulsa: Victory House Publishers. 1987. pg. 70.) "Whenever the method of worship becomes more important than the Person of worship, we have already prostituted our worship." - Judson Cornwall "There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ." - Judson Cornwall "We can expect God to provide everything necessary to make worship possible. We children of God must ever be dependent upon God, for we have no resources of our own. We are as impoverished in worship times as a baby unable to provide its own bottle at feeding time. God, the object of our worship, also becomes the inspiration of that worship. He has imparted His own Spirit into our hearts to energize that worship. All that is due Him comes from Him. His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me." (Cornwall, Judson, Worship As Jesus Taught It. Tulsa: Victory House Publishers. 1987. pg. 140.) "God, the object of our worship, also becomes the inspiration of that worship. He has imparted His own Spirit into our hearts to energize that worship. All that is due Him comes from Him." - Judson Cornwall "worship is recognizing God for who He is; it is ascribing worth to Him; it is God's people telling Him about the worth they see in Him. In fact, worship could very well be thought of as 'worth-ship.'" (Don Weaver, Worship: The Heart's Response to God. International School of Theology.) "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." (James B. Torrance. "The Place of Jesus Christ in Worship", Church Service Society Annual. No. 40. May, 1970. pgs 41-62). "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." - James B. Torrance "Mercy comes down from heaven to earth so that man by practicing it may resemble God." - Giambattista Giraldi (1573) "You alone are my strength my shield; to You alone may my spirit yield." - As The Deer by M.Nystrom (1984) "There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is… for now and all eternity." - Matt Redman "My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation." - William E. Gladstone "God...He spoke a book and lives in his spoken words, constantly speaking his words and causing the power of them to persist across the years." - A.W.Tozer "Biblical worship finds God and will also find our neighbor." - Mark Roberton "To truly love someone is to see them as God intended." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul." - Martin Luther  it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us." - Martin Luther "Jesus departed from our sight that he might return to our heart. He departed, and behold, he is here." - St. Augustine of Hippo (430). "Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime." - Martin Luther "Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee? Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone thee! 'Twas I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied thee; I crucified thee."  - 'Ah, Holy Jesus' by Heermann/Bridges "He clothed himself with our lowliness in order to invest us with his grandeur." - Richard Wright (1885) "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." - Alfred Lord Tennyson (1892) "So I'm taking a stand—and I hope others will—to really live what I believe and embrace who I am in Jesus Christ." - Michael W. Smith "I believe we are called to just get with it. We are called to share our joy by serving the lost. The poor. The sick. The brokenhearted. The least of these." - Michael W. Smith In Christ, we are given the courage and strength to change the world."  - Michael W. Smith "We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance." - Matt Redman "The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God." - Marva Dawn "the Christian life consists in what God says to us, not what we say about God." - Marva Dawn "God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action." - Peter Abeland (1142) "Why and how is God to be loved? God himself i the reason why: without limit is how." - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1153). "The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine." - Ross Parsley "Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home." - John Henry Jowett (1923) "The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you." - Hilary of Poitiers (c.368) “No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.” - A.W. Tozer “Listen as a beloved child of God, secure in His love, someone whom God loves intensely.” - Rory Noland “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 "Biblical worship finds God and will also find our neighbor." - Mark Roberton “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 (Engaging with God, pg. 20) “Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose – and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin”. - William Temple’s (1881-1944) Readings in St. John’s Gospel. “I have been before God; and have given myself, all that I am and have to God, so that I am not in any respect my own.” - Jonathan Edwards (1758) “Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.” - N.T. Wright “God always gives his very best to those who leave the choice with Him.” - James H. Taylor (1905). “There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.” - Leighton Ford “Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.” - A. W. Tozer “Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”- Mother Teresa of Calcutta “He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.” - William Penn (1718). "The eyes of all look to You, and you give them their food at the proper time. You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing." - Ps. 145:15-16 Prayer: "Control my thoughts and motivations and bring me into conformity with Your will." - Charles Stanley “Holiness is unwrought by the Holy Spirit, not because we have suffered, but because we have surrendered.” - Richard S. Taylor "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. And all these things shall be added unto you, Allelu alleluia!" - "Seek Ye First." - Karen Lafferty (c1972) "The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance." - C.S. Lewis "When God's people begin to praise and worship Him using the Biblical methods He gives, the Power of His presence comes among His people in an even greater measure." - Graham Truscott "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 my their word." - H.H. Rowley "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 "Worship in Ancient Israel" p. 257 "It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men." - C.S. Lewis "God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation." - Charles H. Spurgeon "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 "The time has come for a revival of public worship as the finest of the fine arts...While there is a call for strong preaching there is even a greater need for uplifting worship." - Andrew W. Blackwood

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