“It is natural and right, of course, that the worship we offer to God in public should be of the highest possible quality. But that must not lead us to conceive a musically ‘Third-Programme’ god who prefers the exquisite rendering of a cynical professional choir to the ragged bawling of sincere but untutored hearts.”
J. B. Phillips, Your God Is Too Small. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961, page 43.
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