Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes

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

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.

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

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 key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'

For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.

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

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.