Desire Quote by George Eliot

“The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture. It consists of two movements.…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“the Liturgy is accomplished faith, lived faith. It plunges us into the full reality of the truth of faith; it creates the spiritual space…

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

“The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good liturgy does. It breaks…

— Fred Bahnson

“The Liturgy itself is prayer; the confession of faith finds its proper place in the celebration of worship.”

— The Catholic Church

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as it participates…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's…

— Bob Buford

I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety,…

— John Wesley

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old…

— Pope Paul VI

“He meets us where we are, as creatures of habit who are shaped by practices, and invites us into a community of practice that…

— James K.A. Smith

“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

Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally…

— Pope Benedict XVI