Sydney Carter

So what do you believe in? I walk upon the water.

— Sydney Carter

Your holy hearsay is not evidence. Is living now.

— Sydney Carter

Come holy harlequin! Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.

— Sydney Carter

Teach the crippled how to leap, Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.

— Sydney Carter

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

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

Coming and going by the dance, I see Will go on dancing when my bones are not.

— Sydney Carter

Dance, then, wherever you may be, And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said he.

— Sydney Carter

I danced on the Sabbath On a Cross to die.

— Sydney Carter

They buried my body And I still go on.

— Sydney Carter

They cut me down Of the Dance, said he.

— Sydney Carter

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

Love, like the yellow daffodil, is Lord of all I know.

— Sydney Carter

All shall be well, I'm telling you, let the winter come and go All shall be well again, I know.

— Sydney Carter

There's a light that is shining in the heart of a man, and a light that is shining, friend, in me and in you.

— Sydney Carter

With a book and a steeple, with a bell and a key but the light will be shining at the end of it all.

— Sydney Carter

If we give you a pistol, will you fight for the Lord?" "For the truth is more holy than the book, to me.

— Sydney Carter

There's an ocean of darkness and I drown in the night "And I walk in the glory of the light," said he.

— Sydney Carter