Smokey Robinson Quotes

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ.

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.

Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.

God can take anything we have, as long as we give Him the glory for it. He can develop it and make it acceptable in music for the people.

I also believe my musical abilities are a true gift from God.

My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.