David Wilkerson Quotes

I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.

The question isn't 'Do we worship?' The question is 'Who (or what) do we worship?'

We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.)

If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.

The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus.