Quotes
Here are some quotes I’ve stumbled upon on a few different topics, including God, worship & music. I also have a page of some of my favorite verses from Scripture here.
I am not yet perfect, but I thank God and my Lord Jesus Christ that I am done with the past and I do now trust in my Savior for full deliverance from all my sins. -A.W. Tozer
What am I here for? Because God delivered me when no other hand could do it. -Smith Wigglesworth
Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. Set God-sized goals. Pursue God-ordained passions. Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention. Keep asking questions. Keep making mistakes. Keep seeking God. Stop pointing out problems and become part of the solution. Stop repeating the past and start creating the future. Stop playing it safe and start taking risks. Expand your horizons. Accumulate experiences. Enjoy the journey. Find every excuse you can to celebrate everything you can. Live like today is the first day and last day of your life. Don’t let what’s wrong with you keep you from worshiping what’s right with God. Burn sinful bridges. Blaze new trails. Criticize by creating. Worry less about what people think and more about what God thinks. Don’t try to be who you’re not. Be yourself. Laugh at yourself. Quit holding out. Quit holding back. Quit running away. -Mark Batterson (Lion Chaser’s Manifesto)
No matter the society or culture, the city or town, God has never lacked the power to work through available people to glorify His Name. -Jim Cymbala
[God] is utterly incomparable–beyond the furthest horizon of our imaginations. He is off the scale of our comprehension. We have merely known the shallows of the mighty deep. -Matt Redman
None of you can be strong in God unless you are diligently and constantly hearkening to what God has to say to you through His Word. -Smith Wigglesworth
When you understand who you are in Christ, there is a rest that enters your soul. -Darlene Zschech
When it comes to being led by the Lord, there are no simple formulas that apply to every situation. We need to learn to follow God’s leading day by day. -Jim Cymbala
God will manifest Himself in direct proportion to our PASSION for Him. -Jim Cymbala
It does not take a cultured or a learned man to fill a position in God’s church; what God requires is a yielded, consecrated, holy life, and He can make of such a flame of fire. Baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire! -Smith Wigglesworth
I understand true worship to be when one’s spirit adores & connects with the Spirit of God, when the very core of one’s being is found loving Him, lost in Him. -Darlene Zschech
God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching. -Matt Redman
A sense of God’s supernatural presence is the first essential of real worship . . . Unfortunately, we humans have the ability to shut God out of our lives. As R.C. Sproul concludes, we put on blindfolds & go through our days as if God did not exist. Even as Christians we need to be reawakened to the ‘presence of God’s majesty & glory.’ -Sally Morgenthaler
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. -C.S. Lewis
…though our earthly gathered worship times may never fully sound the depths of His glory, beware of those that don’t even attempt to do so. -Matt Redman
How in the world can we worship God in a way that is exciting & passionate & moving if we do not know anything about Him? . . . How can the heart really respond to that which it does not know? . . . the more we understand the revelation God has given us about Himself, the more we ought to be moved to worship & praise Him in response. -R. C. Sproul
The cause of Christ pumping away in our veins should cause extraordinary praise to the Father. -Darlene Zschech
Worship rises or falls with our concept of God. -A. W. Tozer
…nothing brings the heart, soul, & mind greater joy & satisfaction than praising the one true God. - Beth Moore, Stepping Up
We cannot afford to keep offering up “feel good,” impotent Christianity in our worship services, settling for a Christianity that has little or nothing to do with the self-revealed God of Scripture. -Sally Morgenthaler
Worship is the believer’s response of all that they are – mind, emotions, will, body – to what God is and says and does. -Warren Wiersbe
We cannot even offer a simple song of praise without using the breath God first gave to us. -Matt Redman
…regardless of how magnificent the musical moments are, unless one’s heart is fully engaged in the worship being expressed, it is still only music. -Darlene Zschech
In the last days of this century, God is again calling the church to worship as whole people–intellect, emotions, body & spirit. -Sally Morgenthaler
There’s no telling what God can do when God’s people begin to pray. -Jim Cymbala
Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of God’s willingness. -George Mueller
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. -Victor Hugo
Why should any of us wait one more minute to receive what we need from God? Let this be our day to arise & talk to the Father from our hearts. Let this be our day to experience a breakthrough moment in which we will receive help through the loving power of our prayer-answering God. -Jim Cymbala
God understands our prayers even when we can’t find the words to say them. -Author Unknown
If we do not yearn & pray & expect God to stretch out His hand & do the supernatural, it will not happen. -Jim Cymbala
Music . . . can name the unnamable & communicate the unknownable. -Leonard Bernstein
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. -Leopold Stokowski
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. -Gustav Mahler
He who sings scares away his woes. -Cervantes
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -Aldous Huxley
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. -William P. Merrill
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. -Charlie Parker
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. -Henry Giles
Music is the universal language of mankind. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For me, writing is exploration; & most of the time, I’m surprised where the journey takes me. -Jack Dann
Better to write for yourself & have no public, than to write for the public & have no self. -Cyril Connolly
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted. -Jules Renard
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within. -Gustave Flaubert
. . . everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath
I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter. -James Michener
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. -William Wordsworth
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path & you will find you have crossed the mountain. -Author Unknown
Let God’s promises shine on your problems. -Corrie Ten Boom
