...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Here love begins to render the prose of Life into hymns and canticles of praise” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the most beautiful… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
They are all up — the innumerable stars— And hold their place in heaven. ... There they stand, Shining in order, like… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood. — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ...in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Hymns have always sounded like sung spells to me. I never felt included in the magic of the God songs I heard… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent… They must harass, debate,… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“I believe the message in the hymn “Rise Up, O Men of God” (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a… — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
“I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really want to be saints… — wendell berry Copy Share Image
Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
