Steve Ekeroth > Steve's Quotes

“When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.”
― John Piper

“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

“All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.”
― Donald Miller, To Own a Dragon: Reflections On Growing Up Without A Father

“Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God. ”
― Rick Warren

“Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God”
― John Eldredge, The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We've Only Dreamed of

“To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

“Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian

“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.”
― Stanley Hauerwas

“If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.”
― Evelyn Underhill

“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

“There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have read the scriptures, non fiction for example. Another is to do studies. Another is to go to a place of worship. Another thing is to sit and listen to someone who’s speaking. There’s all kinds of ways. Another way is to write. About the truth. Discover the struggle through your character.”
― Ted Dekker

“Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.”
― Stephen Charnock

“Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.”
― D.A. Carson

“We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.”
― A.W. Tozer

“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate. This gives to the typically Christian pleasure in this earth a strange touch of lightness that is almost frivolity. Nature was a solemn mother to the worshipers of Isis and Cybele. Nature was a solemn mother to Wordsworth or to Emerson. But Nature is not solemn to Francis of Assisi or to George Herbert. To St. Francis, Nature is a sister, and even a younger sister: a little, dancing sister, to be laughed at as well as loved.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Grant that I may worship and pray unto Thee with as much reverence and godly fear, as if I saw the heavens open and all the angels that stand around Thy throne. Amen.”
― William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

“Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“A theology that cannot be sung is not worth having.... Authentic Christian faith is not merely believed. Nor is it merely acted upon. It is sung - with utter joy sometimes, in uncontrollable tears sometimes, but it is sung.”
― Reggie M. Kidd, With One Voice: Discovering Christ's Song in Our Worship

“There is nothing better - nothing - than knowing that the risen Christ lives right now in heaven, singing over his people - singing over me - with love. ”
― Reggie M. Kidd, With One Voice: Discovering Christ's Song in Our Worship

“In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?”
― John R. W. Stott

“We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men.”
― George MacDonald, Adela Cathcart

“For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton