Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.
The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.
Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for the truth. Working on paintings is a process toward my artistic creation. It is a new spiritual theme of my whole philosophy for pursuing the truth. Each painting represents a process in all of my art.
The last story: God is everything, God is good.
My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
What God hath wrought?
Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism.
For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Oddly enough, George Pal always began and ended something with The Bible. All his pictures had a religious undertone. God was always there, protecting us.
I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'
Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead.
