Hymns Quotes (page 2)

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• funeral
• cheer
• sad

All things that we ordained festival,Turn from their office to black funeral;Our instruments to melancholy bells,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,And all things change them to the contrary. William Shakespeare

• today
• wonderful
• night

I wonder" he wrote, "if the day will ever come that the loveliest of hymns, Silent Night, will come into the minds of the people throughout the world to express the German heart. I belive it is the expression of the heart of many Germans...[and]of most people throughout the world. That is the appalling tragedy of all that we witness today" Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King in his diary during WWII during German occupation of the Netherlands. Mackenzie King

• character
• new
• democratically

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days. Richard Morris

• people
• norms
• norm

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

• nature
• god
• law

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. Maria Mitchell

• comforting
• past
• future

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future. Andy Griffith

• writing
• then
• parting

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write. Jessi Colter

• religious
• atheist
• church

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them. Mark Haddon

• time
• play
• firsts

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. Wynton Marsalis

• people
• lost
• government

I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet... the song that inspires and lifts people's sights. Nick Clegg

• life
• struggle
• religious

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

• christianity
• usefulness
• useful

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians. Kenneth Scott Latourette

• prayer
• real
• true

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

• church
• book
• time changes

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church. Charles King