sacred expression Quotes

There is a sacredness in tears

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.