#hymn

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

#become #carry #come #comfort #fragile

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

— Jessi Colter

#i #i do #i write #part #piano

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#christians #hymns #israel #psalms #still

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

— Richard Morris

#else #hymns #much #norm #nowadays

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church. ↗

— Charles King

#change #church #got #honestly #hymn

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

#devotion #devout #except #feel #force

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#life #life is a #religious #religious life #struggle

Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life. ↗

— Sam Keen

#change

Return, O wanderer, now return, And seek thy Father’s face; Those new desires which in thee burn Were kindled by His grace. Return, O wanderer, now return, And wipe the falling tear: Thy Father calls, - no longer mourn; ’Tis love invites thee near ↗

— William Benco Collyer

#love

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#first #first time #hymn #i #marine