Oratorio Quotes

#1. Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

#3. The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard to keep in touch with the whole thing ...

Dorothy Bryant

#5. I've never seen an episode of 'Downton Abbey.'

Keeley Hawes

#6. If we see a problem in our nation we must first look at our churches. He really does want His people who are called by His name to humble themselves, pray, seek His face and turn from their individual wicked ways. This always turns a nation around.

Dean Braxton

#7. When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Greg Iles

#8. I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

John Chamberlain

#9. But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#10. Let equal fire our souls inflame,
And equal zeal employ,
That we the glorious spring may know,
Whose streams appear'd so bright below.

Georg Friedrich Handel

#11. Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

Edward Abbey

#12. The letter that would change everything arrived on a Tuesday.

Rachel Joyce

#13. We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

Don Cheadle

#14. He looked surprised, as if he were not used to such praise, but surely he must be, Tessa thought in confusion. Surely everyone who knew him knew how lucky they were.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

Theodor Herzl