Quotes about Expression

If you haven't been baptized as an expression of your faith in Christ, do so as soon as possible, as Jesus commanded.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line You know, we really should work together sometime...

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective.

People wrote these stories down because they found in them something that helped restore their dignity; the stories gave them a sense of identity; they helped give voice to their pain.

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.