Peter Kreeft Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

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.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

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

Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

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

I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.

In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning.

Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

All writing comes by the grace of God.

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

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.'

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

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