Able Quote by Cliff Barrows

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…

— Brian Houston

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

What a way to learn great theology! That's what comes to mind whenever I sing one of those old hymns. "And Can It Be"…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

“My mom used to have her own hymnal. It was as marked up as her Bible. She sang in the church choir for years.…

— Katherine Reay

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

— Richard Morris

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

— Keith Getty

Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

— James Montgomery

As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought they should…

— W. S. Merwin

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

— George Herbert

Many of my songs just come together in quatrains because that's how a hymn goes.

— Julien Baker

There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of…

— John Betjeman

And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky