Liturgy Prayer Quotes

#1. The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress in any clothing we did not make ourselves, or being unwilling to drive a car we did not construct entirely by ourselves.

N. T. Wright

#2. 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 your heart open and turns you toward God.

Fred Bahnson

#3. Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first"
"Yes"
"Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.

Lauren Groff

#5. But if roteness is a danger, it is also the way liturgy works. When you don't have to think all the time about what words you are going to say next, you are free to fully enter into the act of praying; you are free to participate in the life of God.

Lauren F. Winner

#6. And above all, I am not interested enough in politics to let them encumber my last days. - DRIEU LA ROCHELLE,

Clive James

#7. There was no twinkle in his eyes.
"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough."
Tiger Lily blinked at him, and she didn't understand how anyone could only love a part. Her greedy heart didn't work that way.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#8. [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.

Shane Claiborne

#9. I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

Boss Tweed

#10. 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 more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.

Bob Buford

#11. Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

Osbert Lancaster

#12. The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

George Eliot

#13. If the pen is mightier than the sword, then what is the laptop? A light saber or a life saver?

K.S. Collier

#14. Excuse me, your attention please."
He waited until the whole floor had stopped what it was doing and turned to face him. For a split second his impulse control kicked in, but by then his mouth was fully engaged.
"For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.

Sarah Mayberry

#15. The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that."

Tim Foley

#16. Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

Alan Bennett

#17. Sure, sometimes it is great when, in prayer, we can express to God just what we feel; but better still when, in the act of praying, our feelings change. Liturgy is not, in the end, open to our emotional whims. It repoints the person praying, taking him somewhere else.

Lauren F. Winner

#18. 262."Be square but do not cut; be sharp but do not stab; be straight forward but do not unrestrained; be bright but do not dazzle.

Lao-Tzu

#19. You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy

Rick Riordan

#20. The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

Alice McDermott

#21. Well, you see, Mr. Martson," Tray began, flashing a charming smile, "this isn't what it looks like." "It isn't? he asked skeptically. "No, you see Taryn thought it'd be a good idea to practice her climbing skills." "On you?" Mr. Martson supplied dryly. "Yeah,

Tijan

#22. Today there are more Muslims at prayer on Fridays in Britain, France, or Germany than there are Christians at mass or liturgy in those countries on Sundays.

Srda Trifkovic

#23. I have a very vibrant imposter syndrome that goes on throughout most of my life, but nothing more than when someone has to put a hat on me or some kind of sash and go, 'We're giving you this certificate.'

Robin Ince

#24. They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,' and so, under the pretext of restoring it to its primitive form, they corrupted the order of the liturgy in many respects to adapt it to the errors of the Innovators.

Pope Leo XIII

#25. Abortion is a woman's right.

Roseanne Barr

#26. It's going to sound like brown-nosing, but I love 'Parks & Rec.'

Melissa Fumero