On Music:

“The meaning of song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that!”
Thomas Carlyle



“Next to theology, I give music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme and song.”
Martin Luther


“The Christian life, in its thought and feeling, its visioning and its purposing, its innermost reality and its essential unity, has ever found its truest expression in song. Its songs, in turn, have helped to develop the ethical ideals and the spiritual power of the Christian life.”

Milton S. Littlefield


The Musician’s Oath:

“For man’s offence, O unexampled love,
Love nowhere to be found less than divine!
Hail Son of God, Savior of men, thy name
Shall be the copious matter of my song
Henceforth, and never shall my harp thy
Praise forget, nor from thy Father’s
Praise disjoin.”
Milton, Paradise Lost (Book III vs.410-415)