God's Glory and Our Worship

Here are a couple of quotes to go along with Steve's post:

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling ‘darkness’ on the wall of his cell...” --C.S. Lewis

“Ocean of Glory, who has no need to have your glory sung, in your goodness receive this drop of praise. …Glory to him, who could never be measured by us! Our heart is too small for Him; yes, our mind is too feeble. He makes foolish our smallness by the riches of wisdom. …Blessed be He whom our mouth cannot adequately praise, because his gift is too great for the skill of orators to tell! Nor can our abilities adequately praise his goodness. For praise Him as we may, it is too little. But since it is useless to be silent and constrain ourselves, may He, on account of our weakness, excuse the meagerness of such praise as we can sing” --Efraim of Syria

"Though he himself needs not our praise, his worth calls us to come. His glory now before our gaze; we silently undone" --a modern Christian hymn

"If we don't praise, the rocks begin to warm up their vocal chords" --Matt Mason