The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.
I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.
I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.
It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer – it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you.
Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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.
It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life--to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.
Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.
If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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