97 Quotes About Hymns


  • Author Tove Jansson
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    She put on a white dress and went around all day with roses in her hair and sang hymns.

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  • Author Rae Carson
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    Steer well! The harbor just aheadAglow with glory’s ray,Will on thee golden luster shed,From out the gates of day,And waiting there are longing handsThat thrill to clasp thine own,And lead thee through the heav’nly landInto the bright unknown.

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  • Author Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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    Songs and hymns refresh the body. Hymns invoke the spirit to rise to its maker for strength. When we live in a day without a hymn or a song, we disregard the essence of the day

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  • Author Henry W. Baker
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    There is a blessèd home,Beyond this land of woe,Where trials never come,Nor tears of sorrow flow;Where faith is lost in sight,And patient hope is crowned,And everlasting lightIts glory throws around.

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  • Author Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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    Who will sing today?Who will sing today?A dear full heart untold awaitsA sinful mind unchanged rests ajar; to hear the sweat salvation in Christ Jesus through hymns and praise amassWho will sing today?Who will sing today?Who will sing today?Who will sing today?A spirit to riseA body to upliftA soul to changeThe lost to seekWho will sing today?Who will sing today?

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  • Author maya angelou
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    In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

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  • Author Ambrose Bierce
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    TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

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