Hymns Quotes · Page 4

I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.

— Billy Squier

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

— George Herbert

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

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement…

— Yolanda Adams

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

— Anonymous

“thighs made of hymns, I read 'em like I'm reading runes. Now tell me where my future lies...your neck, can I Savion…

— Brandi L. Bates

What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?

— Louis Untermeyer

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,…

— Lord Byron

They are all up — the innumerable stars— And hold their place in heaven. ... There they stand, Shining in order, like…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among…

— Marilynne Robinson

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for…

— Boris Trajkovski

There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our…

— Keith Getty

They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a…

— Dwight Yoakam

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is…

— Aeschylus

The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day,"…

— James F. Cooper

You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's…

— Louis Armstrong

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers.…

— Libba Bray

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

— Perfume Genius

I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the…

— Jonathan Meiburg

If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should…

— Gregory Palamas

It's more in retrospect as I've thought about it over the years and look back at what I wrote, how I wrote…

— Dwight Yoakam

There's some belting hymns. Brilliant hymns. When I was an altar boy the hymns were great.

— Peter Kay

And to my lips’ Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn...

— D. H. Lawrence

“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

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

— Samuel Wilberforce

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.

— Gordon Fee

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

— Richard Morris

“Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.”

— Phillips Brooks hymn writer

I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'

— Amy Jackson

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

— Pablo Neruda

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

— Victor Hugo

One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.

— Christopher Jackson

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

— Marilynne Robinson

In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the…

— Anonymous

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

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

— Richard Morris

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

— Vivienne Westwood