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Sydney Carter
24 quotes
“So what do you believe in? Nothing fixed or final, all the while I travel a miracle. I doubt, and yet I walk upon the water.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your holy hearsay is not evidence. Give me the good news in the present tense. What happened nineteen hundred years ago May not have happened. How am I to know? So shut your Bibles up and show me how The Christ you talk about Is living now.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come holy harlequin! Shake the world and shock the hypocrite Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down. Let the feast of love begin, Let the hungry all come in, Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Come, Holy Harlequin" (1974) · Performance by Franciscus Henri (2005)
“Teach the crippled how to leap, Throw their crutches on a heap, Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down. Rock, love, carry it away, Lift the world up by your levity, Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Come, Holy Harlequin" (1974)
“They are songs which can be sung in a Christian context, but they all had to mean something to me because I was often on the edge of not believing. The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Times [London] (29 August 1996)
“There are obvious problems with so many denominations in schools today, but I had collective worship at school and I do not think it is a bad thing.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Times [London] (29 August 1996)
“Faith is more basic than language or theology. Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality. Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future. Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on. Even though (because it rejects a doctrine) it is now described as "doubt". This, I believe, is the kind of faith that Christ commended.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Obituary in The Independent (17 March 2001)
“Coming and going by the dance, I see That what I am not is a part of me. Dancing is all that I can ever trust, The dance is all I am, the rest is dust. I will believe my bones and live by what Will go on dancing when my bones are not.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I danced in the morning When the world was begun, And I danced in the moon And the stars and the sun, And I came down from heaven And I danced on the earth, At Bethlehem I had my birth.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dance, then, wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said he.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I danced on the Sabbath And I cured the lame; The holy people Said it was a shame. They whipped and they stripped And they hung me on high, And they left me there On a Cross to die.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They buried my body And they thought I'd gone, But I am the Dance, And I still go on.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They cut me down And I leapt up high; I am the life That'll never, never die; I'll live in you If you'll live in me — I am the Lord Of the Dance, said he.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I needed a neighbour Were you there, were you there? When I needed a neighbour, were you there? And the creed and the colour And the name won't matter Were you there?”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was hungry and thirsty Were you there, were you there? I was hungry and thirsty, were you there? And the creed and the colour And the name won't matter Were you there?”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wherever you travel I'll be there, I'll be there Wherever you travel, I'll be there And the creed and the colour And the name won't matter I'll be there.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's a light that is shining in the heart of a man, it's the light that was shining when the world began. There's a light that is shining in the Turk and the Jew and a light that is shining, friend, in me and in you.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With a book and a steeple, with a bell and a key they would bind it forever, but they can't," said he. "Oh, the book it will perish and the steeple will fall, but the light will be shining at the end of it all.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we give you a pistol, will you fight for the Lord?" "But you can't kill the Devil with a gun or a sword!" "Will you swear on the Bible?" "I will not!" said he, "For the truth is more holy than the book, to me.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's an ocean of darkness and I drown in the night till I come through the darkness to the ocean of light, for the light is forever and the light it is free, "And I walk in the glory of the light," said he.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Loud are the bells of Norwich and the people come and go. Here by the tower of Julian, I tell them what I know.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love, like the yellow daffodil, is Lord of all I know.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All shall be well, I'm telling you, let the winter come and go All shall be well again, I know.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. By Christ I mean not only Jesus; in other times and places, other planets, there may be other Lords of the Dance. But Jesus is the one I know of first and best. I sing of the dancing pattern in the life and words of Jesus. Whether Jesus ever leaped in Galilee to the rhythm of a pipe or drum I do not know. We are told that David danced (and as an act of worship too), so it is not impossible. The fact that many Christians have regarded dancing as a bit ungodly (in a church, at any rate) does not mean that Jesus did. The Shakers didn't...”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Green Print for Song (1974)