A full week into a new year. As you find your feet, I hope these quotes inspire your heart, shape your imagination, and fuel your worship:
C.S. LEWIS
Praise is the culmination of our enjoyment of anything.
JEN WILKIN
Songs of faith are teaching tools, and effective ones. In an age of widespread biblical/theological illiteracy, leaders must choose those songs with care. Many who will sing them under our leadership are spiritual infants. Imagine if the lyrics of the ABC song were 85% accurate.
J.C. RYLE
All services without heart-service are unprofitable and vain.
JOHN CALVIN
We need to have songs which are not only honorable but also holy. They should spur us on to prayer and the praise of God, to meditation on his works, so that we love, fear, honor and glorify him.
In true worship the believer exercises faith and repentance as he meets with God according to His Word and grows in grace.
Singing has a great force and vigor to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.