“The Liturgy itself is prayer; the confession of faith finds its proper place in the celebration of worship.” — The Catholic Church 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
“Morning Time...is a liturgy. It is a habit that ties the past to the future—a liturgy of love.” — Cindy Rollins Copy Share Image
“Above all, enter into the Church’s liturgy and make the liturgical cycle part of your life—let its rhythm work its way into… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“God Himself teaches us to go forward with our hand in His by means of the Church’s liturgy.” — Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross 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
The charismatics confused the holy liturgy with a school of samba, but than I was converted when I got to know them… — Pope Francis 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
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
Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as… — Charles W. Freeman, Jr Copy Share Image
“Now, celebrations become tiring because they unfold in noisy chattering. The liturgy is sick. The most striking symptom of this sickness is… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
“Our liturgy has beauties, which not even a careless, slovenly style of reading can destroy; but it has also redundancies and repetitions,… — Jane Austen 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
Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good liturgy does.… — Fred Bahnson Copy Share Image
Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art,… — Frank McCourt 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
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such… — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the… — Pope Pius XII 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
“(from chapter 20, "Bezalel") "Worship is an art, using the sensory to bring us into an awareness of and attentiveness to the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“It is useful to reflect that the word 'liturgy' did not originate in church or worship settings. In the Greek world it… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The Church wishes, for example, to apply Rosmini's invitation to 'hear loftily of God' with worthy liturgical celebrations, stripping the concept of… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
“We have everyday habits—formative practices—that constitute daily liturgies. By reaching for my smartphone every morning, I had developed a ritual that trained… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil… — Joan D. Chittister 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 is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
