Sentences with phrase «sing hymns of praises»

Take for instance the very uninspiring eulogies of a serving member of the National Assembly, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, who flew to London in company with other perverts to sing hymns of praises for a Nigerian ex-convict and fugitive.

I'm not singing a hymn of praise to trouble.

As a community of faith gathers to read, hear and study sacred texts, as it sings hymns of praise and confesses its sins, and as it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's truth.

Johnson himself bemoaned the fact that he had to devote «this rare and sacred column space» to the issue, highlighting a range of issues he would have rather put thought to, including «singing a hymn of praise for my old chum Gove» over the education secretary's plans to scrap GCSE exams in England in favour of a traditional model styled on the old O - level.

Even Théophile Gautier, certainly not an apostle of radicalism either in art or politics, took the opportunity to sing a hymn of praise to the new era in the pages of the same periodical.

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A few years ago when the number of languages into which it had been rendered was approaching the one thousand mark, it was decided to publish a volume in celebration of that event, to be called The Book of a Thousand Tongues, based doubtless upon the old hymn, «O, for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise.»

A casual reading of such scintillating novels as Ragged Dick and Mark, the Match Boy reveals how Alger created a virtual American mythology of success, the praise of which surely rivaled the hymns sung for Athena in ancient Athens.

If desired, a Psalm or other canticle of praise or a hymn may also be sung by the whole congregation.»

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.

I know this isn't going to be popular but, after years of stodgy presby churches with traditional hymn singing, I like praise music.

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.

The end of it all is that, incorporated into him and sharing in the fellowship of all the faithful, whoever they may be, known or unknown to us, we may come to sing with that ancient hymn - writer his paean of praise:

We sang this old hymn this morning at church — it's such a blessing to sing old hymns of the faith mixed in with more contemporary songs of praise!

He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God.

Psalm 40:3 says «He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God.