Essentials Quote by Boyd K. Packer

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

— Boyd K. Packer

An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in…

— Boyd K. Packer

Reverence invites Revelation

— Boyd K. Packer

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.

— Boyd K. Packer

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has…

— John Hawkins

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to…

— Aberjhani

“The reverence accorded to the composer’s score suggests that it is a sacred object, which is not to be tampered with, whose authority over…

— Christopher Small

This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.

— Jeremy Begbie

And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the…

— Anonymous

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

— William Wordsworth

“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for…

— Thomas Browne