Hymns Quotes - Page 8

• Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

  Bill Jenkins

  Virginia, Community, Together

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• Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Worry, Looks, Next

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 15, 2003.

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• We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

  George Weinberg

  Celebrate Life, Celebrate, Should

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• Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.

  Hilary Duff

  Mom, Sound, Way

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• The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Congratulations, Self, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.227, Penguin

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• I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

  Adam Ant

  Religious, Religion, Disco

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• 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

  Hypocrisy, Vaunt, Praise

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Faith, Angel, Glory

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.134

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• I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.

  Emma Donoghue

  Motherhood, Thinking, Parent

  "‘Room’ Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her “Deeply Feminist” Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, blogs.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Church Music, Musician, Dixie

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Song, Moon, Toes

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. There isn't much of that anymore either. There are very few poems people can recite, but there are quite a few hymns that, if you hum a few bars, people can at least come up with two verses. Many of the older hymns are very beautiful.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Two, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He is very interesting and important because he was also a metaphysician. He knew a great deal about what was, for him, contemporary science. He was very much influenced by Isaac Newton, for example. There are planets and meteors and so on showing up in his hymns very often. But, again, the scale of his religious imagination corresponds to a very generously scaled scientific imagination.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, Imagination, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe the message in the hymn "Rise Up, O Men of God" (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a divine invitation for us to rise above the telestial tinsel of our time; to deny ourselves of ungodliness and clothe ourselves in the mantle of holiness; to reach and stretch and grasp for that spiritual direction and sacred empowerment promised to the Lord's agents, to those charged to act in the name of our Principal, Jesus Christ; and to point the way to salvation and deliverance and peace in a world that finds itself enshrouded in darkness, a world that yearns for spiritual leadership.

  Robert L. Millet

  Spiritual, Jesus, Believe

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• If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Games, Joy

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8830, Delphi Classics

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• Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

  Grace Jones

  Growing Up, Thinking, Jamaica

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• When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind. When some unworthy thought pushes into your mind, replace it with your delete key. Worthy music is powerful and can help you control your thoughts.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Powerful, Keys, Temptation

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• The last image created in verse four of this hymn, ["Come, O Thou Glorious King"] that of the promised Messiah coming into his temple, seems appropriate for the day when Jesus was in the Jerusalem temple, teaching and establishing his authority. As with the Triumphal Entry, his actions then seem but a foretaste of even greater fulfillment when he comes again in glory. Just as the early Latter-day Saints were reassured by the promised return of the Savior, so we too can look forward with faith to his return as King.

  Eric D. Huntsman

  Jesus, Kings, Teaching

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• You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.

  John Lennon

  Lying, Judging, Church

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• No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Self, Long

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Community, Church, Great Things

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• 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

  Rights, Jail, Darkness

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• We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?

  Eddie Izzard

  Earth, Hairdos

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• Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Art, Writing

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.124, New World Library

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• What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert my post, so long as I am allowed to keep it. And I ask you to join me in this same song.

  Epictetus

  Song, Men, Swans

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