Bells Ringing Quotes:

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

- Ezra Pound

topic: People, Church, Literature, Symbolic, Interference

In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks Im nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. Its not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.

- Andrew Eldritch

topic: Nice, Thinking, People, Bells Ringing

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: In Memoriam canto 106 (1850)

topic: Inspirational, New Year, Years, January 1st, Spiritual New Year

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.

- Plautus

source: "Trinummus", IV, 2, 162, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 67-69, 1922.

topic: Moving, Dumb, Bells, Bells Ringing

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

- Leonard Cohen

source: Song: Anthem

topic: Running, Prayer, Light, Light Up, Depression Inspirational

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Happy, New Year, Rings, January 1st, Spiritual New Year

Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: "The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

topic: Stars, Night, Air, Merriment, Bells Ringing

Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Forgiveness, Letting Go, Country, Bells Ringing, Steeples

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.

- Anne Rice

source: Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.727, Ballantine Books

topic: Secret, Bells, Hell, Bells Ringing

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

- Leonard Cohen

source: Song: Anthem

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Hope And Faith, Darkness To Light

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

source: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

topic: Death, Peace, Men, Death And Grieving, Death Grieving

When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

- Rob Bell

topic: Fear, Real, Track, Freeze, Bells Ringing

Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said!

- Keith Green

topic: Easter, Tombstone, Angel, Christian Easter, Christs Resurrection

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

topic: July, I Have A Dream Speech, Hampshire, Soul Force, July 4th 1776

Christ is risen from the dead!

- Keith Green

topic: Christ, Risen, Christian Easter, Christs Resurrection, Easter Inspirational

I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

- Jo Brand

topic: Fun, Dad, Sunday, Good Fun, Bells Ringing

While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.

- Thomas Hood

topic: Joy, Bells, Able, Bells Ringing, Chimes

The big risk in Saudi Arabia is that Ghawar's rate of decline increases to an alarming point. That will set bells ringing all over the oil world because Ghawar underpins Saudi output and Saudi undergirds worldwide production.

- Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

source: "Forecast of Rising Oil Demand Challenges Tired Saudi Fields" by Jeff Gerth, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2004.

topic: Oil, Risk, World, Bells Ringing