Hymns Quotes

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
Andy Griffith

Future, Past, Young

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
Franz Schubert

True, Real, Inspired

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
James Dyson

Time, School, Playing

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
Mark Haddon

Find, Big, Religious

My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
Ben Barnes

Dad, School, Different

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

Used, Israel, Christians

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.
Richard Morris

Character, Days, Seems

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.
Richard Morris

Else, Sing, Nowadays

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.
Jessi Colter

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