Hymns Quotes · Page 4

When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns.

— Heber J. Grant

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

— Charlize Theron

One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.

— Christopher Jackson

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

— Victor Hugo

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

— Marilynne Robinson

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

— Richard Morris

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

— Pablo Neruda

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing…

— Dwight L. Moody

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No…

— Grace Jones

The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles…

— Heber J. Grant

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound…

— Aldous Huxley

In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as…

— Paul Evdokimov

I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song…

— Scotty McCreery

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise…

— Philip Appleman

The great folk hymns are a perfect marriage of text and tune. There are those that have nice messages and some with…

— Mack Wilberg

I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music,…

— Alan Green

Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it…

— Harold Rosenberg

... we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory…

— Gregory Palamas

Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies…

— Dwight Yoakam

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they…

— Charles Spurgeon

Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those…

— Laurie R. King

Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the…

— John Burroughs

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration.…

— Joseph Campbell

I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'

— Amy Jackson

“Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.”

— Phillips Brooks hymn writer

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

— Richard Morris

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

— Wynton Marsalis

Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and…

— Charitie Lees Smith

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

— Vivienne Westwood

The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common…

— Joanna Baillie

In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the…

— Anonymous

What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?

— Louis Untermeyer

There's some belting hymns. Brilliant hymns. When I was an altar boy the hymns were great.

— Peter Kay

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,…

— Lord Byron

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

— Anonymous

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement…

— Yolanda Adams

“thighs made of hymns, I read 'em like I'm reading runes. Now tell me where my future lies...your neck, can I Savion…

— Brandi L. Bates

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.

— Gordon Fee

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

— Samuel Wilberforce