Quotes about Expression

The Psalms show us what healthy spiritual life looks like. You name everything that's happening inside of you. You give it language and expression, You articulate exactly what the desolation feels like. If you don't drag it up and give it words, then it's buried down in your being somewhere. And it will come out in other ways. Unhealthy, destructive ways. You'll keep it bottled up. And you'll be miserable.

It is possible for music to be labeled Christian and be terrible music. It could lack creativity and inspiration. The lyrics could be recycled cliches. That Christian band could actually be giving Jesus a bad name because they aren't a great band. It is possible for a movie to be a Christian movie and to be a terrible movie. It may actually desecrate the art form in its quality and storytelling and craft.

We need you to be you. We don't need a second anybody. We need the first you.

But sometimes when I hear people quote the Bible, I just want to throw up.

The world is free to be a world. It's free to be beautiful and safe, and it's free to break your heart in a thousand ways. That free.

All work is ultimately creative work because all of us are taking part in the ongoing creation of the world. There's

Connection is an engine of creation.

He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

A poet never takes notes..you never take notes in a Love Affair.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.