Sentences with phrase «from hymns of praise»
The descriptions of God's mighty acts of creation in the Oracle are retrieved from hymns of praise, the ones you're remembering now.
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hymn, n [from the Latin hymnus, song of praise] 1: a song of praise to God 2: a metrical composition adapted for singing in a religious serviceFor centuries, Christians have sung hymns in order to praise God.
Some of these we have already noted as appearing in the Pyramid Texts or The Book of the Dead, but apart from these there have appeared many hymns of high order in praise of one or the other of the gods.
And the concluding hymn of praise suggests that Jeremiah has been delivered «from the hands of evildoers.»
Hymns and canticles of more recent composition, but also the old ones that have come down to us from our Christian past, enable us to sing the praises of God along with those who have gone before us, while they unite us with others present at worship in a common act of adoration or petition or confession.
Aside from the hymn - like praise of love its meaning is found in love as the force that brings human beings together.
After a hymn of praise to the NHS from 91 - year - old Harry Smith that drew the first tears of anything other than despair all week, Andy Burnham, the shadow health minister, followed up with one his tub - thumping, kick - the - Tories specials.
Gilead is the long - hoped - for second novel by one of our finest writers, a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God - haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part.