Quotes about Song
WORSHIP IS …not just a song, it's a way of life. It's not just for musicians and good singers, it's for everyone. It's not just 20 minutes once a week. It's an ongoing daily attitude that reminds us of His greatness and our dependency upon Him.
- Stormie Omartian
O sons of Peace, sons of the One Catholic [Church], walk in your way, and sing as you walk. Travelers do this in order to keep up their spirits.
- St. Augustine
[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.
- Gordon Fee
The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.
- Khalil Gibran
The point is, we were created to love beauty. We love beauty because Elyon loves beauty. We love song because Elyon loves song. We love love because Elyon loves love. And we love to be loved because Elyon loves to be loved. In all these ways we are like Elyon. In one way or another, everything we do is tied to this unfolding story of love between us and Elyon.
- Ted Dekker
There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
- Steven Curtis Chapman
There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?
- Frederick Buechner
The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart.
- Frederick Douglass
They'll read and sing a sacred song, And make a prayer both loud and long, And teach the right and do the wrong, Hailing htthe brother, sister, throng, With words of heavenly union.
- Frederick Douglass
If you were a song What song would you be? Would you be the voice that sings, Would you be the music? When I am singing this song for you You are not empty air You are here, One breath and then another: You are here with me...
- Margaret Atwood
This is "poetry," this song of the wind across teeth, this message from the flayed tongue to the flayed ear.
- Margaret Atwood
Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!
- Henry Ford