Music is as well or better able to praise Him than the building of the church and all its decorations: it is the Church’s greatest ornament…religious music without religion is almost always vulgar.

from Conversations with Igor Stravinsky

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Gender-neutral version:

Music is as well or better able to praise God than the building of the church and all its decorations: it is the Church’s greatest ornament…religious music without religion is almost always vulgar.