Worship Quotables

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• Why Do Worship Ministry
  I have tried always to keep in mind the far broader worshiping community of the Holy Catholic Church herself, to whose practice in worship, in the offering of thanksgiving and adoration of the Blessed Trinity through Jesus Christ our Lord, all theological study is in the last resort directed. No writer on worship could be […]
• A Matter of Taste
  Too often, advocates for “high culture” or “pop culture” worship music try to make their advocacy a matter of theological principle, when their conviction is really more a matter of their own tastes and cultural preferences —Tim Keller, “Reformed Worship in the Global City” in Worship by the Book, 196
• Tell Them about God!
  C. S. Lewis once told a young writer: “Instead of telling us a thing is ‘terrible,’ describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was a ‘delight,’ make us say ‘delightful’ when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (‘horrifying,’ ‘wonderful,’ ‘hideous,’ ‘exquisite’) are only saying to your readers, ‘Please will […]
• The End of Religion
  In Him was the end of “religion,” because He himself was the Answer to all religion, to all human hunger for God, because in Him the life that was lost by man—and which could only be symbolized, signified, asked for in religion—was restored to man. —Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World, 20