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The first formal Haggadah was written over two thousand years ago. Over time, prayers, hymns, and selections from the Mishnah were added. — Ken Royal

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling. — Emma Donoghue

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. — Henry David Thoreau

The inward sighs of humble penitence
Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air. — Joanna Baillie

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords. — George Herbert

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too. — Samuel Wilberforce

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God. — Philip Appleman

Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory. — Jeremy Taylor

I'll be singing hymns to the rafters, be praising His goodness so loud they're going to have to turn down the volume in Heaven. — Diane Hammond

Thighs made of hymns, I read 'em like I'm reading runes. Now tell me where my future lies ... your neck, can I Savion on it? — Brandi L. Bates

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! — Lord Byron

For all my dreams of complex new beginnings and convoluted endings, it can be as easy as this: a boy singing hymns again. — Kristin Hannah

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep,
Your Maker's praises spout;
Up from the sands ye codlings peep,
And wag your tails about — Cotton Mather

As long as music survives, poetry will never die. — Michael Bassey Johnson

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. — Robert Green Ingersoll

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time. — James Dyson

The seasons sang to him - like ageless hymns with whisperings he could feel, but not fully understand. — Bodie Thoene

Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love. — Alexis Carrel

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

It made him want to sing hymns he'd never even heard before — Orson Scott Card

I naturally loathe nearly all hymns — C.S. Lewis

May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!" — Danny Baker

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

By singing the Guru's hymns, I, the minstrel spread the Lord's glory. Nanak, by praising the True Name, I have obtained the perfect Lord. — Guru Nanak

The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples. — Pablo Neruda

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns. — Henry David Thoreau

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.. — John Betjeman

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics. — G.H. Hardy

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

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

When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns. — Heber J. Grant

Jesus, these Protestants! In my church we didn't sing cheap hymns. With us it was Handel and Palestrina. — John Fante

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

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. — Walker Percy

Hymns are the poetry of the people. — John Betjeman

No matter what roller coaster ride we're on, the safety bar of God's character keeps us secure. Grab hold and don't let go. — Denise K. Loock

After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2. — Sarah Vowell

Music gives infinite strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn ... — D.H. Lawrence

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park. — Yolanda Adams

Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise. — Henry Van Dyke

Music revived my spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

After a lustre of the moon, we say
We have not the need of any paradise,
We have not the need of any seducing hymn. — Wallace Stevens

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?' — Neil Peart

It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn. — Frank Muir

Hymns are companions for life travelers. — Andy Griffith

What hymns are sung.
What praises said.
For homemade miracles of bread? — Louis Untermeyer

Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence. — Edward M Hays

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks. — Phillips Brooks

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song. — Gordon Fee

The windows of army surplus stores constituted hymns to male powerlessness. — William Gibson

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. — Edith Sitwell

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

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread? — Louis Untermeyer

The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature. — James Ellis

The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world. — Pablo Neruda

A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever. — Max Lucado

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times. — Emma Donoghue

Here love begins to render the prose of Life into hymns and canticles of praise — Kahlil Gibran

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco. — Adam Ant

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

I want my life to be a hymn to the Creator. — Robert Muller

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning. — Victor Hugo

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do. — Vivienne Westwood

Hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein. — Billy Graham

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

Weak if we were and foolish, not thus we failed, not thus;
When that black Baal blocked the heavens he had no hymns from us — G.K. Chesterton

Music is soul of the spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita