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Sydney Carter Quotes

1915–2004 England

Sydney Carter (6 May 1915 – 13 March 2004) was an English Quaker poet and songwriter.

England
Hymnwriters
Poets
Songwriters

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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.

"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."

George Fox (1966)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sydney Carter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.