Quotes about hymns
hymns raises-questions church
I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived. Alan Green
hymns earth hairdos
We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about? Eddie Izzard
hymns differences important
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
hymns differences important
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
hymns way band
Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it. Adam Rich
hymns companion traveler
Hymns are companions for life travelers. Andy Griffith
hymns invite itself mass pass seems
The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.
hymns long singing
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
hymns jail rights
Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present. Douglas Rushkoff
hymns where-you-come remember
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
hymns tunes folks
Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.. John Betjeman
hymns people
Hymns are the poetry of the people.
hymns people heaven
Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven. Henry Van Dyke
hymns political moments
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. Jose Saramago
hymns hypocrisy vaunt
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
hymns chess tunes
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics. G. H. Hardy
hymns shame brothers-karamazov
And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn. Fyodor Dostoevsky
hymns sea oratory
There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns. Frederick William Faber
hymns lows
The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature. James Ellis
hymns singing pakistan
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
hymns soul lines
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords. George Herbert
hymns differences diversity
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. Hillary Clinton
hymns miracle bread
What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread? Louis Untermeyer
hymns america leader
Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first. Ken Mehlman
hymns important church
I'm fortunate in that I've grown up in a worshipping tradition which is quite rich musically (and music is very important to me) and has a wonderful resource of hymns from all sorts of different parts of the Church... and to go to church and be able to sing that stuff and listen to a Bach motet or indeed some charismatic choruses. N. T. Wright
hymns deals
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. Marilynne Robinson
hymns design typography
The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples. Pablo Neruda
hymns tests democratic
We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation. Mikhail Saakashvili
hymns body world
The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body. John Bruton
hymns enemy celebrate-life
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. Yitzhak Rabin
hymns community church
Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do. Vivienne Westwood
hymns waiting catholic
Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. Walker Percy
hymns issues united-states
The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue. Saxby Chambliss