[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very…

“Many secular observers and spiritual practitioners alike mistake mystical chanting as a kind of anthropological curiosity or interesting musical diversion from secular mainstream entertainment,…

— Zeena Schreck

I've always been a fan of old-time hymns and Scots-Irish dirges, though I wouldn't necessarily consider myself an expert on the type of music…

— Ryan Bingham

Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

— John Betjeman

It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

— Frank Muir

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.

— George Herbert

Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.

— Edward M Hays

If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier.…

— Martha Whitmore Hickman

What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's…

— Epictetus

After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing…

— Wallace Stevens

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Marilynne Robinson

Hymns have always sounded like sung spells to me. I never felt included in the magic of the God songs I heard growing up…

— Perfume Genius

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

— Anonymous

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

— Mack Wilberg