Quotes about Expression

Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too."

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other, is by music. When I would form in my mind an idea of a society in the highest degree happy, I think of them as expressing their love, their joy, and the inward concord and harmony and spiritual beauty of their souls by sweetly singing to each other.

Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale; were I a swan, like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing hymns of praise to God.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

the founders understood that freedom and religion went hand in hand, that freedom must have religion and religion must have freedom. One without the other was in fact neither. Freedom without religion would devolve into license or end in tyranny; and religion without freedom would really be only another expression of tyranny.

Although he eventually chose theology over music, music remained a deep passion throughout his life. It became a vital part of his expression of faith, and he taught his students to appreciate it and make it a central aspect of their expressions of faith.