“It seems that the only preaching God honors, through which His wisdom and power are expressed, is the preaching of a man who is willing in himself to be both a weakling and a fool. “

John Stott

Worship is God’s enjoyment of us and our enjoyment of him. Worship is a response to the father/child relationship.
- Graham Kendrick

We worship whom we trust, and we trust whom we know.
- David Jeremiah

God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him.
- Kelly Sparks

To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart. – Erwin Lutzer

“God’s agenda for our lives may be far different from our own. He cares more about our character than our convenience, comfort or cash. “

Joseph M. Stowell

“If any man says, “I trust in Jesus, therefore I will live as I like,” that man’s religion is vain; and he has profaned the cross.”

- Charles Spurgeon

The grief of great loss
does not disappear.
Instead it becomes integrated
into one’s life as a painful part
of a healthy whole.

Gerald Sittser

“Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.”

Henri Nouwen

 A grateful person feels a great sense of unworthiness–”I have so much more than I deserve.” But the ungrateful person feels, “I deserve so much more than I have.” Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grows. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher