When thou prayest, better thy heart be without wordsThan thy words without heart.
00935 – When Thou Prayest
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00922 – Peace in Our Hearts
As you announce peace with your mouth, make sure that greater peace is in your hearts… For we have been called to heal wounds, to bind up the broken, and to call home any who have lost their way.
00909 – Singing Truth
I wept at the beauty of your hymns and canticles, and was powerfully moved at the sweet sound of your Church singing. These sounds flowed into my ears, and the truth streamed into my heart. from Confessions, IX
00907 – Shallow Tunes & Great Symphonies
The lips know only shallow tunes. The heart is where great symphonies are born. from A Symphony in Sand
00892 – God Shines through Everything
Wisdom is knowledge deepened by love. The wise person knows more deeply by way of love than by way of argument because the eye of the heart can see the truth of reality. Hence the wise person is one who knows and sees God shining through everything, even what seems...
00873 – Music and Emotion
How greatly did I weep in thy hymns and canticles, deeply moved by the voice of thy sweet-speaking Church! The voices flowed into mine ears, and the truth was poured into my heart, whence the agitation of my piety overflowed and my tears ran over, and blessed was I...
00859 – Music: A Powerful Tool
I am convinced that congregations learn more theology (good and bad) from the songs they sing than from the sermons they hear. Many sermons are doctrinally sound and contain a fair amount of biblical information, but they lack that necessary emotional content that...
00858 – Unacceptable Worship
Music and liturgy can assist or express a worshiping heart, but they cannot make a non-worshiping heart into a worshiping one. The danger is that they can give a non-worshiping heart the sense of having worshiped. So the crucial factor in worship in the church is not...
00854 – Singing Involves the Whole Person
The anthropological point that is of significance for theology is that singing clearly demonstrates worship—and therefore the divine kingdom and human salvation—to be an affair of the whole person, mind, heart, voice, body.
00831 – Unlocked the Music of Your Heart Yet?
Has it happened yet? Has the music of your skill and practice unlocked the music of your heart? We’ve all had moments when the music of our heart has seeped out and been a part of a performance. But have you been able to access that music and use it in praise and...