About Quote by Marilynne Robinson

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.…

— Marilynne Robinson

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

— John Betjeman

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

The great folk hymns are a perfect marriage of text and tune. There are those that have nice messages and some with good music,…

— Mack Wilberg

People love to hear the choir sing the hymns.

— Mack Wilberg

“It is natural to speak of hymns as "poems," indiscriminately, for they have the same structure. But a hymn is not necessarily a poem,…

— Hezekiah Butterworth

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

— James Montgomery

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

— Richard Morris

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

— Edith Sitwell

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hymns are companions for life travelers.

— Andy Griffith

“One difficulty that people seeking to modernize hymnals and the language of worship inevitably run into is that contemporaries are never the best judges…

— Kathleen Norris