Fanny Crosby Quotes

#1. Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.

Fanny Crosby

#2. God hasn't forgotten you, God will never forget you. He says He will never leave you comfortless, and He won't. You can't use Him up or wear Him out. Hang on to him. He wont forget you. So please don't forget Him.

Krickett Carpenter

#3. Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior.

Fanny Crosby

#4. Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't.

Fanny Crosby

#5. If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind ... for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour.

Fanny Crosby

#6. Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,
Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave;
Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen,
Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.

Fanny Crosby

#7. I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.

Lea Salonga

#8. We are traveling on with our staff in hand ... We are pilgrims bound for the heavenly land.

Fanny Crosby

#9. God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for ... We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good ... His own solution is far better than any we could conceive.

Fanny J. Crosby

#10. The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

Robert E. Sherwood

#11. Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana

#12. Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

Fanny Crosby

#13. The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

Fanny Crosby

#14. Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Fanny Crosby

#15. If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

Frantz Fanon

#16. The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person.

Lysa TerKeurst

#17. There was a lesson here, he realized, not a shining thing but something that was old and rusty and misshapen. It

Stephen King

#18. Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed thru His infinite mercy His child and forever I am.

Fanny Crosby

#19. I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.

Hugh Laurie

#20. Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

Fanny Crosby

#21. It is not enough to have a song on your lips.
You must also have a song in your heart.

Fanny Crosby

#22. Take the wold, but give me Jesus;
In His cross my trust shall be,
Till, with clearer, brighter vision
Face to face my Lord I see.

Fanny Crosby

#23. live in the moment and make it so beautifulthat it will be woth remembering

Fanny Crosby

#24. If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

William Jennings Bryan

#25. Well she was bright; and she danced ... And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in existence. And it was almost as difficult as trying to catch with your hand that dancing reflection. And the task lasted for years.

Ford Madox Ford

#26. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God. Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

Fanny Crosby

#27. Courage' isn't the kinds of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.

Lisa Belkin