George Frideric Handel Quotes

• Learn all there is to learn, and then choose your own path.

  George Frideric Handel

  Path

  57 Copy quote

• I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.

  George Frideric Handel

  Music, Sorry, Wish

  George Frideric Handel (1854). “Messiah; a Sacred Oratorio ... Arranged for the Organ Or Pianoforte, with Vocal Score, by G. J. Elvey”, p.9

  83 Copy quote

• Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

  George Frideric Handel

  Music, God, Writing

  Of the'Hallelujah Chorus' in his Messiah. Quoted in Romain Rolland Essays on Music (1948).

  99 Copy quote

• What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith! How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners! If we were to rely on our works-my God, what would become of us?

  George Frideric Handel

  Grace, Church, Wonderful

  50 Copy quote

• I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.

  George Frideric Handel

  Thinking, Heaven

  "Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs, Volume 1". Book by Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, 1822; later quoted in Horatio Townsend "An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin" (p. 93), 1852.

  36 Copy quote

• I shudder to think of that God would do something like that through me.

  George Frideric Handel

  Thinking

  43 Copy quote

• It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission.

  George Frideric Handel

  Christian, Holy, Submission

  29 Copy quote

• I thought I saw the face of God.

  George Frideric Handel

  Faces, Saws

  30 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin