Quotation: Calmness and Dignity

Because I bear a distate for the types of "worship service" and "music" that involve waving of arms or clapping of hands (not for those specific actions, but using them to invoke in your mind the image to which I refer), it is easy for me to connect with and deeply appreciate the following quotation, found in our church bulletin last Sabbath:

We need to be thoughtful and still, and to contemplate the truths of revelation. Excitement is not favorable to growth and grace, to true purity and sanctification of the spirit. . . . Let us give no place to strange exercisings, which really take the mind away from the deep movings of the Holy Spirit. God's work is ever characterized by calmness and dignity. --Ellen White, Selected Messages vol. 2, p. 35, 42