James Russell Lowell 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?

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

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

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

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

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

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.

God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

All things of beauty can speak to us of God, and I'm very happy to listen to and be inspired by people of every religious background.

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?

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.

When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that.

You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

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

To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.

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.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.