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 been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein. — Billy Graham 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
Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music,… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Let us say with one voice, the words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn: "I don't feel no ways tired. I come… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's… — John Fowles 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
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they… — Plato Copy Share Image
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,… — Bob Dylan 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
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
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
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
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
There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there… — Anna Letitia Barbauld 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
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. — Eugenio Montale 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
All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people… — Libba Bray 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
