Desire Quote by John Wesley Download Open image “Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.” — John Wesley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Holy Joy Language Praying Singing
To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I'm singing - whatever I'm singing. I missed it… — Maureen McGovern Copy Share Image
Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though… — William Romaine Copy Share Image
“All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if this is so, it follows that everything else that doesn’t lift up the heart to God is not prayer. Therefore, singing, talking, and whistling without this lifting up of your heart to God are as much like prayer… — Martin Luther Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who… — Zoketsu Norman Fischer Copy Share
I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Those without enough love experience rage, but love drives rage away.” — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“I had a sort of faith during my early life. But devils also have a sort of faith. Still, neither they nor I received… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
If I had 300 men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image