Spiritual Expression Quotes

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

Music is my religion.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

Music is part of God's universe.

Writing [is] a form of prayer.

A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.

I write all my sermons.

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

I think, as athletes, we've been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you've been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share... His truth in love.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I'm covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book.

I believe that music is God's voice.

There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

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

It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world. All genuine art seeks the spirit. Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory - disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness. If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends.

I'm grateful to God that I'm able to praise his glory through my music.