Quotes and Sayings About Hymns
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Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.
-- Adam Rich -
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
-- Aeschylus -
Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
-- Aldous Huxley -
We are a strong democratic country.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.
-- Anthony Burgess -
To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
-- Barbara Smoker -
It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
-- Billie Jean King -
The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.
-- Bobby Darin -
While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.
-- Boris Trajkovski -
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 you.
-- Brian Houston -
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 their church. As I walked through the Baptist door I was tense, waiting for that tap on the shoulder…but instead I was given a hymn book and welcomed into the church. I sat through the service…This up and down treatment wasn't doing my nerves much good.
-- Can Themba -
If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.
-- Charles Fort -
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.
-- Charles Kingsley -
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
-- Charlize Theron -
All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.
-- Clement of Alexandria -
And to my lips’ Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn...
-- D. H. Lawrence -
May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"
-- Danny Baker -
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
-- Edith Sitwell -
Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.
-- Edward M Hays -
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
-- Eugenio Montale -
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.
-- Frank Muir -
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
-- Franz Schubert -
There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.
-- Frederick William Faber -
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
-- G. H. Hardy -
The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
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 -
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that arbitrariness and importance which works take on when they are no longer noticeable elements of the environment. In America kitsch is Nature. The Rocky Mountains have resembled fake art for a century.
-- Harold Rosenberg
