St. Boethius (500AD)
“Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.”
St. Basil the Great (4th century)
“What did the Holy Spirit do when he saw that the human race was not led easily to virtue and that, due to our penchant for pleasure we gave little heed to an upright life? He mixed sweetness of melody and doctrine so that inadvertently we would absorb the benefit of the words through gentleness and ease of hearing, just as clever physicians frequently smear the cup with honey when giving the fastidious some rather bitter medicine to drink. Thus he contrived for us these harmonious psalm tunes, so that those who are children in actual age as well as those who are young in behavior, while appearing only to sing would in reality be training their souls.”
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