Hymns Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Music, Church Choir, Singing

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• 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.

  Florence King

  Christian, Kings, Cheer

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.33, Macmillan

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• I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Political, Catholic

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• [P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.

  Gordon Fee

  Song, Prayer

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• 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.

  Josh Turner

  Song, Real, Church

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• 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.

  Brian Houston

  Prayer, Father, Singing

  Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.19, Hillsong Music Australia

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• Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Conservative, Democratic

  "Doublespeak - from the horse's mouth". www.sfgate.com. May 10, 2009.

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• 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

  Prayer, Real, Inspired

  "Franz Schubert: The Man and His Circle". Book by Sir Newman Flower, p. 123, 1949.

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• A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

  Madame de Stael

  Religious, Struggle, Life Is

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

  Jessi Colter

  Writing, Piano

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• The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Marine, Firsts, Trumpets

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• 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

  Differences, Important, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 12, 2010

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• 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.

  Keanu Reeves

  Art, Humanity, Together

  "'Matrix Reloaded' previews at Cannes". www.cnn.com. May 13, 2003.

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• 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.

  Lucille Clifton

  Mistake, Writing, People

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• I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

  Charlize Theron

  Women, Thinking, Today

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Mar 10, 2015

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• We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Enemy, Celebrate Life, Celebrate

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• 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.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Offering, Glory, Cathedrals

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• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, Oxygen, History

  Speech to American Bar Association in London, 15 July 1985, in The Times 16 July 1985

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• Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.

  Charitie Lees Smith

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

  Edith Sitwell

  Life, Art, Praise

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• 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.

  Warren Christopher

  Country, Two, America

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• Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

  Jeb Bush

  Running, Believe, Cutting

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• 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.

  John Dingell

  Loss, Gun, Years

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• The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

  John Bruton

  World, Growing, Body

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• Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

  Adam Rich

  Band, Way, Democratic

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