Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence. — Edward M Hays Copy Share Image
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled. — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns. — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians. — Kenneth Scott Latourette 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
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
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
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
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
What a way to learn great theology! That's what comes to mind whenever I sing one of those old hymns. "And Can… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass 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
...we must all offer up a hymn of praise to the God... who is 'Lord of lords' (Deut. 10:17, Ps. 136:1, I… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
... we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory… — Gregory Palamas 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
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church. — Jamey Johnson Copy Share Image
May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!" — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image