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Worship Quotes by John Piper

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John Piper describes worship as the highest moral act, a deep adoration that reflects God’s worth. He contrasts worship under persecution with comfortable practice, and he says true worship feels like a childlike wonder that should never fade. He also frames worship as both an inner feeling and an outward action.

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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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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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Mission exists because worship doesn't.

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

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Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost…

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Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

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

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It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

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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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“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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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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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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The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting…

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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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The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference…

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All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of…

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“Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions…

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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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Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was…

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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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“The gifts are intensifiers of desire for Christ himself in much the same way that fasting is. When you give a gift…

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Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

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Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

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Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every…

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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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The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking…

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“...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a…

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There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and…

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All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and his Son among all the peoples of…

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