97 Quotes About Hymns

Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.

The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.

Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven.

The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.

If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.

There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.