Hymns quotes

Hymns

169 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat

"I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen. When you go through the streets No one recognizes you. No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks At the carpet of red gold That you tread as you pass, The nonexistent carpet. And when you appear All the rivers sound In my body, bells Shake the sky, And a hymn fills the world. Only you and I, Only you and I, my love, Listen to it."

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
Hymns

"Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!"

Hypocrisy Hymns Vaunt
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John Lennon Musician, Activist
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"You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside."

Lying Judging Hymns
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Gerry Adams Politician
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"The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally."

Winning Hymns Way Forward
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"When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer."

Children Wrinkles Hymns
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Dora Russell Artist
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"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system."

People Spring Hymns
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible."

Life Snow Hymns
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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life."

Men Death Hymns
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
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"And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible."

Inspiration Addiction Hymns
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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
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"The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide."

Art Humanity Hymns
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Aeschylus Playwright
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"Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof."

Sacrifice Offering Hymns
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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day."

Self Congratulations Hymns
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Elijah Cummings Politician
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"It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death."

Rights Journey Hymns
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Adam Rich Actor
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"Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it."

Way Band Hymns
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Warren Christopher Politician
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"Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies."

Country Two Hymns
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