Sacred melodies Quotes

Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time. Even though they are usually singing similiar messages that are in today's music, it is good to be reminded that the message of Christ is just as much relevant today as it was then.

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.