Sentences with phrase «hymn says»

Charles Wesley's hymn says it:

You must read the promises, understand the promises, and as the hymn says, you must be «Standing on the Promises.»

Writers would describe it in terms of an imprisonment; Newman's hymn says «in prison for the debt unpaid».

The Hymn says «there was no other good enough to pay the price of sin He only could unlock the gate of heaven and let us in».

We need a spirituality that can discern the presence of God not just «In the Garden» as the old Protestant hymn puts it, but also, as a better hymn says, «Where cross the crowded ways of life, / Where sound the cries of race and clan...»

Every chore is holy, for as the old Protestant hymn says, «Work, for the night is coming.»

Not exact matches

It's only two weeks ago that major central banks suddenly seemed to be singing from the same hawkish hymn sheet,» Mr. McGuire said.

«When I go (to church) tomorrow and sing a hymn, I'm singing about that very fact that I have hated God this past week in my actions,» she said.

«I find that putting old hymns to new music allows us to connect with the hymns and yet still be relevant and authentic to our own culture,» he said.

Belmont RUF pastor, Kevin Twit, one of the key players both musically and creatively in the Indelible Grace movement, said young people have latched onto hymns because of the link they have with history.

Blessed, praised, glorified, exalted, extolled, honored elevated and lauded be the Name of the holy one, Blessed is he - above and beyond any blessings and hymns, Praises and consolations which are uttered in the world; and say Amen.

We have people who come to church in jeans, we have people who will shout out «Hallelujah» if the like what is being said, or repeat the chorus of hymns.

«I think there's a mournful undertone to a lot of my favorite hymns,» Daly says.

Dr. McIntyre says it is merely a «poetic device,» a phrase he uses for many of the hymns.

Like the line from the hymn «Let There Be Peace on Earth» says: With God as «Our Father» WE (meaning all of us) are Family.

At the time I put Inheritance [her last release, consisting of re-imagined hymns] out, I was in a place, I would say, of almost total unbelief.

«For me, gospel music and old hymns were always addressing the big questions — about God, redemption, sin and forgiveness,» he says.

Open an LDS hymn book and see what the songs say.

We said Compline and over the course of the evening sang him some hymns: «Come Thou Fount of Ev» ry Blessing,» «Lord of All Hopefulness,» and «Abide with Me.»

Broadly speaking, it is probably true to say that the Church was more concerned to communicate the schema to the laity than the Bible itself; but in doing so it ensured that whatever of the biblical material became available, either by direct reading, or through liturgy and offices, through sermons, hymns or pictures, was seen in a well - defined perspective.

Andy says: Hymns and songs that show our total commitment to God express something significant.

«She can sing hymns but she can't talk,» Sonny says.

The servant image was never more clear than in the hymn to Christ in Philippians, where it is said of Jesus that he, «though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant» (Phil.

Paul had lots to say about assembling with a community and his hymn of love in Corinthians presumes this.

We can certainly say, with the hymn writer, «Change and decay in all around I see,» but we know also with Gerard Manley Hopkins that «the world is charged with the grandeur of God.

The priest might put his foot down and ban the use of hymns that contain doctrinal errors: the one where Jesus is reported as saying «I am with you in this bread and wine» for example.

Before saying anything else — I'll ask if you remember or have ever heard of the hymn: Be strong (and encouraged, do not fear or be dismayed; for the one who goes before you, will be strong in you today.)

«Have this mind in you which was in Christ Jesus,» Paul says, as he adapts the kenotic hymn in which Christ who is equal to God humbles himself, takes the form of a servant, and becomes obedient unto death (Philippians 2: 5).

Hymns were sung and prayers were said.

«Aren't there other ways of saying thank you to God than just singing hymns?»

This is what the hymn writer F. W. Faber meant in «There's a Wideness in God's Mercy,» when he said:

... «Dan 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms,...» Run along and play in the streets and sing ye ol' hymn about unity thru diversity.

But the Christian poet doesn't have it easy these days — poets, says Grindal, write in images, and a church whose language has become sociological and managerial («The Lord is my corporate manager») is asking the poet to write hymns from abstractions.

Hymn writers and other worshipers find themselves aliens is a period of social, theological and liturgical turmoil; Christians are discovering that they can not, as Peter Gomes has said, «continue living off the dividends of the piety of generations long past.»

It looks as if to say that people who sing hymns are dead.

That strange land in which hymn writers and other worshipers find themselves aliens is a period of social, theological and liturgical turmoil; Christians are discovering that they can not, as keynoter Peter Gomes said, «continue living off the dividends of the piety of generations long past.»

Regarding singing in church, CS Lewis said that what he desires are fewer, better, and shorter hymns; especially fewer.

Where does it say that every church service has to have five hymns and they all have to be five stanzas long?

They are not prepared to agree with the medieval hymn - writer who said that «the times are very evil» — if by those words it is being said that the world itself, the things of this world, the experiences known in this world, are in and of themselves bad.

The content, and to a considerable extent the form, of these materials resembles the later Anaphora or eucharistic prayer of the Church, and the passages explicitly addressed to the Lamb have reminded scholars that Pliny the Younger, in his letter about the Christians, says that they were accustomed to address a hymn (carmen) to Christ.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

That Lord Christ, says the children's Christmas hymn, «leads us on to the place where he has gone.»

Dying, through thee they overcame; living, were faithful to thy name, says an ancient Latin hymn.

Wren says, «A hymn so full of «feminine» imagery deserves to be recast in a feminine form.

Yet he could also say in his great hymn of love written to these same Christians, «When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.»

In Vedic India this element whether as in the hearthfire, in the lightning stroke, or in the blazing sun was an object of constant worship as Agni.6 It is not easy in many of the hymns to say whether the object of cult is the fire itself or a god behind it; perhaps they themselves were not always sure either.

(96) Well know We that thy bosom is times oppressed by what they say, (97) But hymn the praise of thy Lord, and be of those who make prostration (unto Him).

Paul says that as we relate to each other we are to sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody to the Lord in our hearts and giving thanks to God at all times.

[19] An ancient hymn used in the Divine Office even says that the face of Adam was actually modelled on the face of Christ.

Speaking about the hymn, she said: «This song is so important to me because I never wanted anything more than I wanted to be in the film The Color Purple.