And to my lips’ Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn... — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“No matter what roller coaster ride we're on, the safety bar of God's character keeps us secure. Grab hold and don't let… — Denise K. Loock Copy Share Image
Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
“Charles Wesley's hymns are forceful because they contain so many words which are physical: for him the life of a Christian was… — J.R. Watson Copy Share Image
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and… — Folliott Sandford Pierpoint Copy Share Image
Probably about 10 years ago or so I told my grandmother that I always wanted to make a record of hymns if… — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
Paul commands the Church to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly when we meet together, singing psalms, hymns, and… — Keith Getty Copy Share Image
It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Children, set aside at least half an hour in the morning and in the evening for spiritual practices. After bathing in the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened:… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing.… — Siri Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Steer well! The harbor just ahead Aglow with glory’s ray, Will on thee golden luster shed, From out the gates of day,… — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
“I would rather have written the hymns of Wesley's than to have the fame of all the kings that ever sat on… — Kenneth W. Osbeck Copy Share Image
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often… — Pete McCloskey Copy Share Image
Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
