Hymn Quotes
50 quotes by 46 authors
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Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour…
— John Burroughs
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
— G. H. Hardy
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring,…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the…
— Margaret Thatcher
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It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.
— Frank Muir
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If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier. But…
— Martha Whitmore Hickman
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The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.
— Greg Mortenson
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In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility…
— Hector Berlioz
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May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"
— Danny Baker
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A few doors away was the Baptist Church, and as I walked towards it I began to think that people didn't want me to share…
— Can Themba
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The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.
— George Herbert
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After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the bandwagon of inappropriate…
— Cindy Sheehan
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I hymn and bless Your uncountable compassion and philanthropy, as You desired to number me with Your chosen servants. Look down, now, upon me the…
— Marina of Aguas Santas
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For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of…
— Folliott Sandford Pierpoint
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The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.
— Pablo Neruda
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We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of…
— William Mackergo Taylor
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It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer – it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for…
— Brian Houston
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He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in…
— Swami Vivekananda
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
— Madame de Stael
Who Wrote These Hymn Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 50 Hymn Quotes, led by these top contributors: