Musical instruments Quote by Robert Bellarmine

“people would flock to the churches to mingle, to hear a sermon from a talented popular orator, and to enjoy the latest artwork. Religious…

— Benjamin Blech

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands…

— Richard Morris

Music was brought up in the church.

— Sister Rosetta Tharpe

“In a letter to the Christkind you asked for a Missal, a set of green vestments for dressing up, and picture of the sacred…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Above all, enter into the Church’s liturgy and make the liturgical cycle part of your life—let its rhythm work its way into your body…

— Thomas Merton

“In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise…

— St. Thomas Aquinas

“church organist for the past twenty-one years, stroked the last notes of “Faith of Our Fathers.” The next several minutes were ritual Catholic routine—up,…

— Mary Campisi

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the…

— William Ralph Inge

These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us through the…

— Peter Canisius

“The church, although lapsing more and more into deflection from the truth and into a corrupting of apostolic practice, had not instrumental music for…

— John Girardeau

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

— Mervyn Peake

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful...

— Pope John Paul II