Hymnbook Quotes & Sayings

The Book of Psalms is the Bible's hymnbook. It will show you what it means to walk with God in prayer and praise. — Billy Graham

There is a very important connection between the Church's worldview and the Church's hymns. If your heart and mouth are filled with songs of victory, you will tend to have an eschatology of dominion; if, instead, your songs are fearful, expressing a longing for escape-or if they are weak, childish ditties-your worldview and expectations will be escapist and childish. Historically, the basic hymnbook for the Church has been the Book of Psalms. The largest book of the Bible is the Book of Psalms, and God providentially placed it right in the middle of the Bible, so that we couldn't miss it! Yet how many churches use the Psalms in musical worship? It is noteworthy that the Church's abandonment of dominion eschatology coincided with the Church's abandonment of the Psalms. — David H. Chilton

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder. — Al Gore

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. — J.K. Rowling

And in the meantime the rain had become a voluptuous shower. — Vladimir Nabokov

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss. — Andre Rieu

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson

I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back. — Raymond Carver

The central message of the Bible is Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

My, my." A feral grin spread across Cole's face. "Little brother must be a good kisser. — Alexandra Bracken

An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine! — Boyd K. Packer

He liked doing research in the library. He liked feeling of accumulating knowledge in his brain. It was something he had enjoyed ever since he was a child. — Haruki Murakami

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy — N. T. Wright

Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive. — Malcolm Forbes

Sometimes real troubles give you strength you never had before." -Lucio- — Fausto Brizzi

I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you and nobody even looks at you funny. — Rick Riordan

Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors. — John C. Bogle