What gives a liturgy its plot? A liturgy is always a sort…

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from…

— George Eliot

Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.

— John O'Donohue

Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do…

— Robert E. Webber

The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray…

— Anna Akhmatova

“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting seekers into…

— James K.A. Smith

“We have everyday habits—formative practices—that constitute daily liturgies. By reaching for my smartphone every morning, I had developed a ritual that trained me toward…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the…

— Pat Conroy

“There is however, one reason why the arts so rarely accept a mission that IS within the power of the Church to alter. In…

— Aidan Nichols O.P

“I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed.”

— Annie Dillard

[John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer and liturgy,…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“Liturgy puts us to work along with all the others who have been and are being put to work in the world by and…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story…

— Eugene H. Peterson

But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over…

— Nick Hornby