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Prayer Quotes by John Piper

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Worship is described as the highest moral act a person can do, a deep inward feeling that shows God's worth. The quotes say worship is adoration of what delights us, and that true prayer is essential and easily neglected. They also compare worship to missions, saying worship comes first because God is ultimate.

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We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

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Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

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The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.

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Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

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Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

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Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

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Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

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We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

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Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical…

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“Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to…

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We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We…

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The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but…

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Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts…

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Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life…

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“God aims to exalt himself by working for those who wait for him. Prayer is the essential activity of waiting for God:…

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“Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is…

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Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money…

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Without extended, concentrated prayer, the ministry of the Word withers. And when the ministry of the Word declines, faith (Rom. 10:17; Gal.…

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So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is…

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The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer -…

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“Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can…

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Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God…

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“I spoke the hardest words and almost broke: 'There is another kinsman still More close to you than I. He will Be…

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God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom…

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“Think and mull and ponder and chew until you see God the way they see God—namely, as precious and valuable and beautiful…

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Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm…

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If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and…

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'Worship' is the term we use to cover all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the…

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Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe…

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“God is not looking for people to work for him, so much as he is looking for people ho will let him…

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Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

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“You cannot know what prayer is for, until you know that life is war.”

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There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.

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“Let us labor to memorize the Word of God--for worship and for warfare. If we do not carry it in our heads,…

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The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where…

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True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in…

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It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts…

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Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

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Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)