--- title: "10 Worship Self Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 10 Worship Self quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Worship Self sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fd/oscar-auliq-ice-7668_forbes-magazine_human-identity-is-no-longer-defined-by-w_1303123.jpg" --- > [Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-auliq-ice/human-identity-is-no-longer-defined-by-what-one-does-but-by-what-one/) [Oscar Auliq-Ice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-auliq-ice/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fd/oscar-auliq-ice-7668_forbes-magazine_human-identity-is-no-longer-defined-by-w_1303123.jpg) > [“One of the greatest theological challenges of our time is to move our worship beyond self-absorption.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-m-kapic/one-of-the-greatest-theological-challenges-of-our-time-is-to-move-our/) [Kelly M. Kapic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-m-kapic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54c/kelly-m-kapic-36467_prayer_one-of-the-greatest-theological-challeng_151723.jpg) > [Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-carter/too-many-of-us-now-tend-to-worship-self-indulgence-and-consumption/) [Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-carter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b26/jimmy-carter-479_consumption_too-many-of-us-now-tend-to-worship-self_2565044.jpg) > [“You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/you-must-worship-the-self-in-krishna-not-krishna-as-krishna/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c0/swami-vivekananda-53_god_you-must-worship-the-self-in-krishna-not_1402957.jpg) > [Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-muktananda/honor-your-self-worship-your-self-meditate-on-your-self-god-dwells/) [Swami Muktananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-muktananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d63/swami-muktananda-28802_honor_honor-your-self-worship-your-self-medita_2716574.jpg) > [In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-carter/in-a-nation-that-was-proud-of-hard-work-strong-families-close-knit/) [Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-carter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eae/jimmy-carter-479_community_in-a-nation-that-was-proud-of-hard-work_2328115.jpg) > [“By natural law there are two parts to everything; ‘relative’ and ‘real’. By praying to a picture, the 'relative' mail reaches Lord…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/by-natural-law-there-are-two-parts-to-everything-relative-and-real-by/) [Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c16/dada-bhagwan-31_darshan_by-natural-law-there-are-two-parts-to-ev_2424055.jpg) > [In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-carter/in-a-nation-that-was-proud-of-hard-work-strong-families-close-knit-2/) [Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-carter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57b/jimmy-carter-479_community_in-a-nation-that-was-proud-of-hard-work_3050107.jpg) > [“Worship is God's gift of grace to us before it's our offering to God. We simply benefit from the perfect offering of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-kauflin/worship-is-god-s-gift-of-grace-to-us-before-it-s-our-offering-to-god/) [Bob Kauflin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-kauflin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2de/bob-kauflin-50747_church-growth_worship-is-god-s-gift-of-grace-to-us-bef_995869.jpg) > [“Look, the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful; it is that they are unconscious.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/look-the-insidious-thing-about-these-forms-of-worship-is-not-that/) [David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a1/david-foster-wallace-161_every-day_look-the-insidious-thing-about-these-for_441645.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/worship-self/#itemlist", "name": "Worship Self Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. 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We simply benefit from the perfect offering of the Son to the Father through the power of the Spirit (Ephesians 2:18). Worship is our humble, constant, appropriate, glad response to God's self-revelation and his enabling invitation. Apart from this perspective, leading worship can become self-motivated and self-exalting. We can become burdened by the responsibility to lead others and can think that we might not be able to deliver the goods. We subtly take pride in our worship, our singing, our playing, our planning, our performance, our leadership. Ultimately we separate ourselves from the God who drew us to worship him in the first place. That's why biblical worship is God-focused (God is clearly seen), God-centered (God is clearly the priority), and God-exalting (God is clearly honored). Gathering to praise God can't be a means to some \"greater\" end, such as church growth, evangelism, or personal ministry. God isn't a genie we summon by rubbing the bottle called \"worship.\" He doesn't exist to help us get where we really want to go. God is where we want to go. So God's glory is the end of our worship, and not simply a means to something else. In the midst of a culture that glorifies our pitiful accomplishments in countless ways, we gather each week to proclaim God's wondrous deeds and to glory in his supreme value. He is holy, holy, holy. 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The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. 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