Hymns Quotes

“A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.”
― Max Lucado, Next Door Savior: Near Enough to Touch, Strong Enough to Trust

“Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.”
― Noam Chomsky

“A JEWELRY STORE NAMED INDIA

If you hold this
Dazzling emerald
Up to the sky,
It will shine a billion
Beautiful miracles
Painted from the tears
Of the Most High.
Plucked from the lush gardens
Of a yellowish-green paradise,
Look inside this hypnotic gem
And a kaleidoscope of
Titillating,
Soul-raising
Sights and colors
Will tease and seduce
Your eyes and mind.

Tell me, sir.
Have you ever heard
A peacock sing?
Hold your ear
To this mystical stone
And you will hear
Sacred hymns flowing
To the vibrations
Of the perfumed
Wind.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing. Her words had soared like an angel's over the swells of the organ. In fact, I now suspected, her entire theology had been taken from the hymnal.”
― Siri Mitchell, She Walks in Beauty

“A heart of diligence to my Master
A hand of diligence to my Maker
A mind of diligence to do what matter

My savior Jesus is watching
My savior Jesus is seeking
For a life that upholds diligence



Steps in diligence I must take
Deeds in diligence I must do
To please my master with works in diligence

My savior Jesus is watching
My savior Jesus is seeking
For a life that will give account in diligence



Steadfastness and diligence I must pursue
In a world full of deceptions which hinder salvation
My heart and my lips must be for my Master

My savior Jesus is watching
My savior Jesus is seeking
For a heart and a tongue that shall please Him to the very end”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“She put on a white dress and went around all day with roses in her hair and sang hymns.”
― Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter

“Away from the goal
Far away I stand from my home.
A home unknown
Where my heart and spirit must go

Thy guidance oh Lord
Thy guidance oh lord
Eternal eternity I beseech
that You will lead me to the goal


Away from victory
far away I stand from victory
Victory unknown; thy spirit divine I know
that You may lead me where I must go


Thy guidance oh Lord
Thy guidance oh lord
Victorious victory I beseech
that You will lead me to a victorious victory

Away from the troubles of life
far away from the troubles; my delight
that You will lead me with thy light
Thy light that rekindles my night


Thy guidance oh Lord
Thy guidance oh lord
Far away from the troubles I beseech
That You will lead me from the troubles of life with Thy light”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Music gives infinite strength.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“..moments of transport, and of comfort, and of a bracing vastness of possibility. That was all there for me sometimes when I plunged my mind into the Bible’s puzzles; and it was always there in the music of church. I wouldn’t have said it this way then. But I would feel all the cells in my body as I sang hymns that connected my little life with the grandeur of the cosmos, the Christian drama across space and time. This was my earliest experience of breath and body, mind and spirit soaring together, alive to both mystery and reality, in kinship with others both familiar and unknown. That’s one way I’d define the feeling of faith now.”
― Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

“The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.”
― Eugene Wright

“The words were incredibly sad, and, for an atheist like myself, entirely without hope or comfort, but still; it was our duty to sing them to the best of our ability, and to sing proudly, in honor of Sammy.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Canterò la bella, veneranda Afrodite dall’aurea corona,
protettrice delle mura dell’intera Cipro circondata dal mare”
― Homeric Hymns

“A Hymn I sang When I Found You (Poem)
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You opened your arms to me
and my eyes to see.
You embraced me like your own.
In your soul,
You covered me with strength.
You opened my life with your breath.

Your comfort embraces my heart
like what paint is to art,
and jokes are to comedy,
and religion is to a prophecy,
and guitars are to music.
Importantly, you adorn me as artists do to the muse.

You swallowed me with your mind.
Sewn my broken pieces back into one,
and loved me throughout your research.
Like what members are to the church,
and grapes are to wine,
and mud is to a swine.

I was lost,
Now, I'm perfectly found at most.
In your love, I'm pulled.
Complete and full
without a piece amiss.
I'm washed with plenty a kiss.

A perfect melody!
Long gone are the days of melancholy.
Because no strange songs are sung.
You pierce into me like the sun
and comfort me like charms.
Mostly, you sing me a lullaby in your arms.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Music revived my spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Music give infinite strength.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Worship God with deep reverence.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I would rather have written the hymns of Wesley's than to have the fame of all the kings that ever sat on earth; it is more glorious, it has more power in it.”
― Kenneth W. Osbeck, 101 Hymn Stories

“Steer well! The harbor just ahead

Aglow with glory’s ray,

Will on thee golden luster shed,

From out the gates of day,

And waiting there are longing hands

That thrill to clasp thine own,

And lead thee through the heav’nly land

Into the bright unknown.”
― Rae Carson, Into the Bright Unknown

“my father holds a veena
adorns the posture of Saraswati
recites from the Sangam in Tamil,
utters hymns for dry rivers.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Synecdoche

“We know Job's faith survived because his reaction to his devastating loss was to worship God: "Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. He said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord'" (Job 1:20-21). Let me encourage you and your messed up man, should he be willing, to begin to worship God from your place of brokenness.

Tina shares a dramatic story from her work as a music therapist for hospice. One day, as she prepared to leave the hospice floor at the hospital, a nurse called her back to work with a patient in respiratory arrest. Music therapists use music to match the beat of a patient's heart rate, and as the therapist slows down the beat of music, most of the time the heart rate follows, as well as the breathing. At the start of the process, the patient's wife shouted, "Sing 'Amazing Grace'?" Deciding to minister rather than work, Tina sang "Amazing Grace." The patient's distress was overwhelming. He could hardly take in air, and his chest heaved while his wife wept. Right in the middle of "Amazing Grace," The wife once more blurted out, "Sing 'Jesus Loves Me'!" Tina, switched gears and sang, "Yes, Jesus loves me." Tears streamed down the man's cheeks as he sang with her, "Yes, Jesus loves me." His words were broken and he could hardly say them, but in that moment, he worshiped the God who was about to take him home. Whatever you're facing . . . worship.”
― Tina Samples, Messed Up Men of the Bible

“What a happy feast to love hymns!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Sing until you can sing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Singing hymns brings healing to the heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Hymns heals wounded heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“With songs in our hearts, our spirits will be lifted to the heavenly bliss.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Aunt Winifred says that our hymns, taken all together, contain the worst and the best pictures of heaven that we have in any branch of literature.”
― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven

“Your peace you gave us
Your heart divine,
Your blood was spilled
What a mighty prize.
Grant us now Thy tender mercy,
Your peace surrounds us now.
Let every heart, tongue and nation,
Before you Jesus, bow.
Peace peace,
You brought us peace
Let us dwell at Your table,
On what You provide we feast
Take our hand in this brokenness
Hold us gently oh Lord
We pray and ask you for Your presence
Lead us through this wilderness.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“Cult Of The Elements Chorus by Stewart Stafford

The breeze began as hymns,
Spreading through the forest,
Slowly tipping, creaking limbs,
A cult of the elements chorus.

As bobbing boats at a marina,
Invisible H₂O, dialled up to seven,
a domino effect, calmly serene,
Swaying arms, raised to Heaven.

Whistling through the branches,
Trees rocked forward, fell, then,
came with uneasy, silent chances,
Until the zephyr whispered again.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“My belief in God was not obtained through some rousing hymns or moving sermon. My faith was burnished hard through pain and trials whose depth was unimaginable and from which recovery seemed impossible. And it was in those most desperate of places that God moved from being a cheerful idea of hymns and sermons to the Master of the unimaginable and the Healer of the impossible.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The one who designed us to sing recorded and preserved songs for us. These songs are meant to focus our hearts, instruct us in the ways of the Lord, motivate our joy, and put words to our worship.”
― Paul David Tripp, Everyday Gospel Christmas Devotional