L. Lionel Kendrick Quotes

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.

The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit.

The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

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.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.

I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.