Quotes about Singing
Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy.
— Anne Lamott
You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.
— Anne Lamott
Rawlins was carried again to Cardiff, to a loathsome prison in the town, called Cockmarel, where he passed his time in prayer, and in the singing of Psalms.
— John Foxe
[Of Pembroke College:] Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.
— Samuel Johnson
Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose.
— John Piper
1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember
— John Piper
God's passion to be glorified and our passion to be satisfied are one experience in the Christ-exalting act of worship—singing in the sanctuary and suffering in the streets.
— John Piper
Emotionalism can also assume that heightened feelings are the infallible sign that God is present. They're not. The emotions that singing is meant to evoke are responses to the truths we're singing about God—his glory, his greatness, and his goodness.
— John Piper
Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing Him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he cometh in the clouds of heaven.
— John Wesley
The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing. —ZEPHANIAH 3:17
— Sarah Young
No wonder the rulers of this age want to stop the singing, or pollute it with ideology and managed slogans!
— Scot McKnight
Every scene of heaven in the Bible shows us a vision of the Church praying together and singing together and praising together.
— Scot McKnight