"Alleluiah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... order, say the symbolists, that on Christmas night, when it was first sung by the angels, it may be chanted with the greater eagerness and devotion. The "Te Deum" at Matins too is left unsaid, because Christ is regarded as not yet come. But "Alleluia" is not omitted, because Advent is only half a time of penitence: there is awe at the thought of the Coming for Judgment, but joy also in the hope of the Incarnation to be celebrated at Christmas, and the glory in store ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles
... stretched out his arms because of his great longing, a little grey cloud came out of the north and hung between the walls of light, so that he no longer beheld the Vision, but heard only a sound as of a great multitude crying, 'Alleluia'; and suddenly the winds came about him again, and lo! he found himself in bed in the dormitory, and it was midnight, for the bell was ringing to Matins; and he rose and went down with the rest; but when the Brethren left the choir, Brother Ambrose stayed ...
— The Gathering of Brother Hilarius • Michael Fairless
... 'Alleluia shall be sung in Ella's land'; and he passed on his way with a silent vow that one day he would find a means of teaching the English ...
— Stories from English History • Hilda T. Skae
... shame and scoffing rude, In my place condemned He stood; Sealed my pardon with His blood; Alleluia! what ...
— The Teaching of Jesus • George Jackson
... oxalic acid by crystallization. Names locally given the plant in the Old World are wood sour or sower, cuckoo's meat, sour trefoil, and shamrock—for this is St. Patrick's own flower, the true shamrock of the ancient Irish, some claim. Alleluia, another folk-name, refers to the joyousness of the Easter season, when the plant comes ...
— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al
... after these things I heard a great voice of much people in Heaven, saying, Alleluia-" — Revelation, ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory [Purgatorio] • Dante Alighieri |
