Life & Wisdom Quote by Wilford O. Cross

Cross frames worship as less about raw material and more about transformed labor: what reaches "God's altar" isn’t nature untouched, but nature edited, worked, and made legible for human life. The line has the quiet audacity of a modern sacramental argument: holiness isn’t found by escaping the human stamp; it arrives through it. By stressing "made and molded", Cross elevates craft, agriculture, cooking, art, and industry into a kind of moral theology. The offering is not the tree but the table; not grain, but bread. That shift matters because it turns faith from a posture of passive awe into an ethic of responsibility.

The subtext pushes against two temptations at once. One is a romantic spirituality that treats nature as pure and the human as a contaminant. Cross flips that polarity: the human act of shaping becomes the very medium of devotion. The other is a mechanized view of work as merely utilitarian. He insists that what humans fashion from nature carries "nourishment" and "inspiration" together, pairing the body’s needs with the mind’s and spirit’s. That coupling makes the sentence feel aimed at a modern society that separates the sacred from the everyday, art from labor, the altar from the workshop.

Contextually, it reads like a mid-century Christian humanist defense of culture: a reminder that the materials of worship (bread, wine, song, language) are already proofs of collaboration between earth and hands. The intent is to sanctify making itself, suggesting God is honored not by untouched creation alone, but by creation continued through human imagination and care.