Worship Songs Quotes

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual. ~ John Tesh

Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs. ~ Bo Sanchez

God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, Be still and know that I am God! ~ Charles R. Swindoll

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too. ~ Michael W. Smith

As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware I cannot sing before I have seen. All worship is a response to a revelation
it's only as we breathe in more of the wonders of God that we can breathe out a fuller response to Him ... the key to a life of passionate and powerful worship comes from seeing God. ~ Matt Redman

What'd you think?" Dan asked as we buckled into the Acclaim after another Sunday under the big top.

"I wonder if they realize their worship songs include both amillennial and premillennial theology," I said with a sigh. "Also, what's this business from the preacher about Moses writing Numbers? I mean, everyone knows Moses didn't actually write the book of Numbers. It originated from a combination of written and oral tradition and was assembled and edited by Jewish priests sometime during the postexilic period as an exercise in national self-definition. You can look that up on Wikipedia. And, while we're at it, a bit more Christology applied to the Old Testament text would be nice."

"Um, Rach, the sermon today was about humility."

Lord, have mercy.

See, I've got this coping mechanism thing where, when I'm feeling frightened or vulnerable or over my head, I intellectualize the situation to try and regain a sense of control. . . . In some religious traditions, this particular coping mechanism is known as pride.

I confess I preened it. I scoffed at the idea of being taught or led. Deconstructing was so much safer than trusting, so much easier than letting people in. I knew exactly what type of Christian I didn't want to be, but I was too frightened, or too rebellious, or too wounded, to imagine what might be next. Like a garish conch shell, my cynicism protected me from disappointment, or so I believed, so I expected the w ~ Rachel Held Evans

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves. ~ Matt Redman

Worship songs can't just be rooted in culture - they won't be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture. ~ Matt Redman

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him. ~ Stephen Charnock

Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record. ~ Joe Perry

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart. ~ Jason Mraz

We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around. ~ Lil' Romeo

And if I die before I wake
I pray the lord my soul to take
But please don't cry
Just know that I have made these songs for you. ~ Kid Cudi

It was my choice or chance or curse To adopt the cause for better or worse And with my worldly goods & wit And soul & body worship it - ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Like books before them, each of these songs, I know, could in the end prove to be the thing I need: a way out. A place to go. ~ Caitlin Moran

I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from, although I had had several successful revue songs on Broadway. ~ Sheldon Harnick

I've got to be kind of careful because I've had good advice: "Don't sell yourself too short." I have to not be too available to everything that comes along. I've always been a people pleaser and now I'm upping the ante in terms of price so I can be more selective. I really enjoyed working on three tracks on Sara Groves' [parenthood-focused] album Station Wagon. I love playing on those songs and I love the heart in that album. ~ Phil Keaggy

But you worship money, Nate. You're part of a culture where everything is measured by money. It's a religion. ~ John Grisham

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

I find joy and magic in every drop of moonlight. I hear songs of love in every glint of a star. ~ Debasish Mridha

There's a song for every feeling, Bee. Every tear, every smile, every heartbreak and every victory. Music ignites the soul and strips us bare. It's our very essence. Even if you have no one else to turn to and you feel all alone, remember that you can always find comfort in ballads and melodies, serenades and love songs. ~ Julie Johnson

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God. ~ Desmond Tutu

Worship without honor is meaningless ~ Sunday Adelaja

In many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio; we build the songs that way. ~ Conor Oberst

The greatest resource a worship leader has is his relationship with his wife. ~ Cliff Barrows

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist. ~ Emeli Sande

I usually tell somebody if a song's for them. I don't always tell them if it's about them. ~ Guy Garvey

By lifting our hands we symbolically receive everything God is doing in our lives. ~ Bob Sorge

Joblessness is a rare privilege ~ Sunday Adelaja

But in each variant of Socialism that appeared from about 1900 onwards the aim of establishing liberty and equality was more and more openly abandoned. The new movements which appeared in the middle years of the century, Ingsoc in Oceania, Neo-Bolshevism in Eurasia, Death-Worship, as it is commonly called, in Eastasia, had the conscious aim of perpetuating unfreedom and inequality. These new movements, of course, grew out of the old ones and tended to keep their names and pay lip-service to their ideology. But the purpose of all of them was to arrest progress and freeze history at a chosen moment. ~ George Orwell

If and when I do get "down," the last thing on my mind is writing a song. Usually, being bummed just involves lying around on the couch and taking the bad weather personally. I only write songs when I feel good - or at least something approaching "good." ~ Wooden Wand

I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it. ~ Marc Almond

I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Can't complain; the food is great. ~ Theophilus London

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are. ~ Tinie Tempah

Don't go in the opposite direction, locate your calling ~ Sunday Adelaja

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God ~ John Eldredge

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music ... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs. ~ Tori Amos

Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for? ~ Alice James

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs. ~ Ashthon Jones

I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it. ~ Pete Wentz

I think more obvious to others, is that I'm most vulnerable on stage. Even though I know which songs I'm going to play, I try and keep it loose and base my stage time more on what the audience is requesting of me. ~ Jason Mraz