Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is not a situation in life where there isn't a hymn and a Scripture to meet the need. I'm thankful for… — Cliff Barrows Copy Share Image
“people to ourselves rather than Jesus, and then wonder why power has left the pulpit and why the deep theological treasures of… — Matt Boswell Copy Share Image
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how… — Andy Griffith Copy Share Image
The song Of Heaven is ever new; for daily thus, And nightly, new discoveries are made Of God's unbounded wisdom, power, and… — Robert Pollok 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
“I would rather have written the hymns of Wesley's than to have the fame of all the kings that ever sat on… — Kenneth W. Osbeck Copy Share Image
But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If you go to former Yugoslav states, the Balkan states, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the situation is dire. Not to mention Bosnia,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with Your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often… — Pete McCloskey Copy Share Image
O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Steer well! The harbor just ahead Aglow with glory’s ray, Will on thee golden luster shed, From out the gates of day,… — Rae Carson 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
But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every… — Paul Evdokimov 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
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
New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and… — Joseph C. Lincoln 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
Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling,… — Mary Weston Fordham Copy Share Image
Hate engenders hate. Hate spreads to nations, and from this cause we have devastating wars. In the contemplation of these wars and… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer – it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves… — Brian Houston Copy Share Image
If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there… — Karl Rove 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
My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school.… — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is a blessèd home, Beyond this land of woe, Where trials never come, Nor tears of sorrow flow; Where faith is… — Henry W. Baker Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image