Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations. — J. C. Ryle 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
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords. — George Herbert 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
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
Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn. — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
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 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
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
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… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I… — Nikos Kazantzakis 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
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
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
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
I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time.… — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for… — Fanny Crosby Copy Share Image
“On the basis of these definitions, hymns cannot do theology, even when the meaning of “reasoned enquiry” is broadened and qualified. 6… — Brian A. Wren Copy Share Image
Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there… — Anonymous 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
“Away from the goal Far away I stand from my home. A home unknown Where my heart and spirit must go Thy… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents… — Mari Boine Copy Share Image
“Many secular observers and spiritual practitioners alike mistake mystical chanting as a kind of anthropological curiosity or interesting musical diversion from secular… — Zeena Schreck 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
