" A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Worship changes the worshipper into the image of the One worshipped." - Jack Hayford
"When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words without heart." -Lamar Boschman
"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, Because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever." - John Piper
“We are here to be worshippers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that every convert should learn to be a worshipper, and after that he can learn to be a worker. The work done by a worshipper will have eternity in it.” - A.W. Tozer
“Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring. The grace of God is preposterous enough to accept as beautiful a coloring that anyone else would reject as ugly. The grace of God sees beyond the scribbling to the heart of the scribbler – a scribbler who is similar to two thieves who hung on crosses on either side of Jesus. One of the two asked Jesus to please accept his scribbled and sloppy life into the kingdom of God …and He did. Preposterous. And very good news for the rest of us scribblers.” - Mike Yaconelli, Dangerous Wonder
“The most critical issue facing Christians today is not abortion, pornography, the disintegration of the family, moral absolutes, MTV, drugs, racism, sexuality or school prayer. The critical issue today is dullness. We have lost our astonishment. The Good News is no longer good news, it is okay news. Christianity is no longer life-changing, it is life-enhancing. Jesus doesn’t change people into wild-eyed radicals anymore; He changes them into nice people.
Our culture is awash in immorality and drowning in dullness. We have forgotten how to dance, how to sing, and how to laugh. We have allowed technology to beat our imaginations into submission and have become tourists instead of travelers. Television dominates our time, alters our values, numbs us to life in all of its wildness. We have been stunted by mediocrity.” - Mike Yaconelli, Dangerous Wonder
