Pope John Paul II Quotes

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God.

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

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.

Where I came from, it was more shocking to be an atheist than to be transgender.

I do want to inspire people - young girls who may like to wear boys' clothes and who romanticize women and feel nothing wrong with it.

Like, you can have church at your house. I feel like as long as you're giving Him praise, you can do it wherever. You don't have to be inside of a church to give praise to Him.

I got a letter from a mom, and she was telling me about how her daughter is a tomboy and the trouble she has in classes and being around boys. She herself had the same kinds of problems growing up and how inspired they were by me. That was such an incredible email to receive.

Definitely being spiritual helps me create good music because music is ultimately the sound of the god.

I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can't disconnect the act of writing music from the act of prayer. If anyone tries to stop me working, it feels like someone is trying to stop me from taking communion.

Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

When I first came out, I thought, I want to walk like a real woman, I don't want to do mincing steps. And there was some girl I saw walking up Holloway Road in Islington who had this long languid walk and I thought, that's what I like, so I incorporated her walk into mine.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.