Chris Crutcher Quotes

The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Man makes holy what he believes.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

The life of man needs to be consecrated.

How little people know who think holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible.

Each child is made in the image of God and has inherent worth.

It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.

Either all days are holy or none are.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

This is beginning to sound more like a canonization hearing than a confirmation hearing.

God's name is not considered good at the banks

Islam teaches us to respect all the prophets of God Almighty and degradation of any prophet is tantamount to defamation of the rest.