Quotes by Hymn Writers

Christ the Lord is risen today Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high Sing ye heavens and earth reply.
Charles Wesley
Love understands love it needs no talk.
Frances Ridley Havergal
Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
William P. Merrill
To God your every Want In instant Prayer display Pray always Pray and never faint Pray without ceasing Pray.
Charles Wesley
We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.
Horatius Bonar
One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.
Dorothy Frances Gurney
Run, John, and work, the law commands,Yet give me neither feet nor hand.Much better new the Gospel brings:It bids me fly and gives me winds.
John Berridge
It is well with my soul.
Horatio G. Spafford
No heart thrives without much secret converse with God and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
John Berridge
How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie afar And see but shadows of Thy face.
Isaac Watts
On accepting adversity in our lives: Always it is initiated by an act of will on our part; we set ourselves to believe in the overruling goodness, providence, and sovereignty of God and refuse to turn aside no matter what may come, no matter how we may feel. I mistakenly thought I could not trust God unless I felt like trusting Him. Now I am learning that trusting God is first of all a matter of the will. I choose to trust in God, and my feelings eventually follow.
Margaret Clarkson
But, oh, when gloomy doubts prevail,I fear to call thee mine;The springs of comfort seem to fail,And all my hopes decline.Yet, gracious God, where shall I flee?Thou art my only trust;And still my soul would cleave to thee,Though prostrate in the dust.
Anne Steele
When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie,My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;The flame shall not hurt thee; I only designThy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.
John Rippon
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Isaac Watts
Hush my dear lie still and slumber Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.
Isaac Watts
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Frederick William Faber
Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.
Isaac Watts
Silence is not certain token That no secret grief is there Sorrow which is never spoken Is the heaviest load to bear.
Frances Ridley Havergal
Men ask for a rainbow in the cloud; but I would ask more from Thee. I would be, in my cloud, myself a rainbow -- a minister to others' joy. My patience will be perfect when it can work in the vineyard
George Matheson
There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.
Frederick William Faber
One glance of Thine creates a day.
Isaac Watts
The kiss of sun for pardon The song of the birds for mirth One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.
Dorothy Gurney
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
Isaac Watts
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish to rage and be furious is brutish and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious is manly and divine.
Isaac Watts
O thou by whom we come to God The Life the Truth the Way The path of prayer Thyself hast trod- Lord teach us how to pray.
James Montgomery
Rock of Ages cleft for me Let me hide myself in thee.
Augustus Toplady
They here shall be redeemed from sin,Shall here put on their glorious dress,Fine linen, pure, and white, and cleanThe saints' inherent righteousness.Love, perfect love, expels all doubt,Love makes them to the end endure;Their names thou never wilt blot out;Their life is hid, their heart is pure.Their names thou wilt vouchsafe to ownBefore thy Father's majesty,Pronounce them good, and say, 'Well done,Enter, and ever reign with me!
Charles Wesley
Hark the herald angels sing "Glory to the new-born king." Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled!
Charles Wesley
Onward Christian soldiers Marching as to war With the cross of Jesus Going on before.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Once a day....call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.
Isaac Watts
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgement.
Isaac Watts
In Him we have peace, in Him we have power; Preserved by His grace, throughout the dark hour; In all our temptation He keeps us to proveHis utmost salvation, His fulness of love.Pronounce the glad word, and bid us be free! Ah, hast Thou not, Lord, a blessing for me? The peace Thou hast given, this moment impart, And open Thy heaven, O Love, in my heart.
Charles Wesley
Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.
Horatius Bonar
Take my will and make it Thine It shall be no longer mine Take my heart it is Thine own It shall be Thy royal throne.
Frances Ridley Havergal
All people that on earth do dwellsing to the Lord with cheerful voiceHim serve with fear, his praise forth tellcome ye before him and rejoice
William Kethe
Let me be dressed fine as I will Flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
Isaac Watts
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.
Isaac Watts
Time is eternity begun.
James Montgomery
See the Gospel Church secure And founded on a Rock! All her promises are sure Her bulwarks who can shock? Count her every precious shrine Tell to after-ages tell Fortified by power divine The Church can never fail.
Charles Wesley
In Fellowship alone To God with Faith draw near Approach His Courts besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.
Charles Wesley
We conquer by continuing.
George Matheson
Dear refuge of my weary soul,On thee, when sorrows rise,On thee, when waves of trouble roll,My fainting hope relies.
Anne Steele
Hush my dear lie still and slumber! Holy angels guard they bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.
Isaac Watts
Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.
Frances Ridley Havergal
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
Frances Ridley Havergal
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Isaac Watts
Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must yet confess that the hill of science, like that of virtue, is in some instances climbed with labour. But when we get a little way up, the lovely prospects which open the eye make infinite amends for the steepness of the ascent. In short, I am wedded to these pursuits, as a man stipulates to take his wife; viz., for better, for worse, until death us do part. My thirst for knowledge is literally inextinguishable. And if I thus drink myself into a superior world, I cannot help it.
Augustus Toplady
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to that alone Laughs at impossibilities And cries it shall be done.
Charles Wesley
If God has entrusted us with suffering, let us set our hearts and minds to work together with Him to enable Him to bring out of our trials all the glory He longs us to know.
Margaret Clarkson
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire.
James Montgomery
For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.
Horatius Bonar
Waiting with hope is very difficult, but true patience is expressed when we must even wait for hope. I will have reached the point of greatest strength once I have learned to wait for hope." George Matheson
George Matheson
No Condemnation now I dread,Jesus, and all in Him, is mineAlive in Him, my Living Head,And clothed in Righteousness Divine,Bold I approach th' eternal Throne,And claim the Crown, through Christ my own
Charles Wesley
Many a friendship-long loyal and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
Frederick W. Faber
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
A charge to keep I have A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save And fit it for the sky.
Charles Wesley
Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.
Bishop Ken