Deliberately Interrupting Ourselves

Worship is the strategy by which we interrupt our preoccupation with ourselves and attend to the presence of God. Worships is the time and place that we assign for deliberate attentiveness to God- not because he's confined to time and place but because our self-importance is so insidiously relentless that if we don't deliberately interrupt ourselves regularly, we have no chance of attending to him at all at other times and in other places.

Quoted from Eugene Peterson in Philip Yancey's The Bible Jesus Read.