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
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
“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
“The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress… — N.T. Wright 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
Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“By participating in the liturgy, we’re doing more than “attending a service.” We are entering a story—a story in which we also… — Mark Galli 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
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
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley 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
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
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like… — Shane Claiborne 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
They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,'… — Pope Leo XIII 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
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
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
“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape… — 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
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“the Liturgy is accomplished faith, lived faith. It plunges us into the full reality of the truth of faith; it creates the… — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy,… — Michael Parenti 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
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
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
![“[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.” quote by Shane Claiborne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef0/shane-claiborne-960_around-the-world_people-need-to-find-words-that-can-recon_906206.jpg)
