The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Liturgy puts us to work along with all the others who have been and are being put to work in the world… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
[John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“There is however, one reason why the arts so rarely accept a mission that IS within the power of the Church to… — Aidan Nichols O.P Copy Share Image
“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Since in fact liturgical traditions, vestments, church vessels, etc., were immediately removed wherever Calvinism infiltrated or Reformed ideas even gained influence in… — Ernst Walter Zeeden Copy Share Image
Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I'm very eclectic, musically as in other things! But also to frame the hearing and knowing of Scripture within a context of… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed." It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image
The mystery of the Holy Night, which historically happened two thousand years ago, must be lived as a spiritual event in the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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