"There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly..."

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Source : "Composer/performer Keith Getty is celebrating an Irish Christmas at venues across the USA". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December 5, 2014.

Keith Getty

#Song Quotes #Real Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.”
“Mainly horror movies and exploitation movies and a lot of stuff comes from those press books from those old movies. Lines out of old movies, comic books that we collect, all the old horror comics of the 50s, probably about the only comics that we collect are obscure horror comics, the real sick ones from the 50s. Some stuff comes from there but mainly just old records, old rockabilly records and that stuff, singles mainly, 45s.”
“But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be.”
“If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.”
“A weed is but an unloved flower.”

Source : Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”
“It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.”
“The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.”
“It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.”

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