Hymns Quotes

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

Past, Reality, Thinking

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...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.

Billy Graham

Powerful, People, Saving

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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

Blessing, People, Heaven

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In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.

Roderick L. Evans

Life, Wind, Soul

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There is not a situation in life where there isn't a hymn and a Scripture to meet the need. I'm thankful for the Word of God, and I praise Him for the privilege of still being able to memorize.

Cliff Barrows

Situations In Life, Needs, Able

"Cliff Barrows Still Singing at 90". Interview with Bob Paulson, billygraham.org. April 28, 2013.

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What a way to learn great theology! That's what comes to mind whenever I sing one of those old hymns. "And Can It Be" is like putting the doctrine of salvation to music. "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" is a melodic lesson in grace. No wonder good hymns make for strong faith!

Joni Eareckson Tada

Strong, Blessing, Grace

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It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.

Fanny Crosby

Beautiful, Blessed, Sight

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The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

Heber J. Grant

Music, Spiritual, Powerful

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Hymns are companions for life travelers.

Andy Griffith

Companion, Traveler

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What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

Hillary Clinton

Differences, Diversity, Personality

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I want my life to be a hymn to the Creator.

Robert Muller

Attitude, Want, Creator

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I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time. Even though they are usually singing similiar messages that are in today's music, it is good to be reminded that the message of Christ is just as much relevant today as it was then.

Bart Millard

Thinking, Giving, Singing

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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

Where You Come, Celebration, Remember

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

Maria Mitchell

Nature, Science, Law

Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.

Clement of Alexandria

Singing, Life Is Like, Occupation

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An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!

Boyd K. Packer

Music, Teaching, Play

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

James Ellis

Lows

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O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Brother, Prayer, Heart

John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.124

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In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him

Frances Ridley Havergal

Encouraging, God, Religious

Frances Ridley Havergal (1887). “My King, Or, Daily Thoughts for the King's Children”

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Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.

Charles Spurgeon

Song, Jesus, Ocean

Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.158, Discovery House

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Hymns are the poetry of the people.

John Betjeman

People

Radio Talk on BBC Radio, July 04, 1975.

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Paul commands the Church to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly when we meet together, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. It seems clear here that style is not the important issue as much as the depth of content.

Keith Getty

Spiritual, Song, Issues

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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

Important, Church, Different

Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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

George Herbert

Soul, Lines, Psalms

"A True Hymn". "The Temple". Book by George Herbert, 1633.

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Book, Religion, Atheism

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