Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power. — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you might even… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray. — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
