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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 penitenceRise 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
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
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
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
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
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 sayWe have not the need of any paradise,
We have not the need of any seducing hymn. — Wallace Stevens
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
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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
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