Quotes about Expression

I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes, We convince by our presence.)

God gave people tear ducts for a good reason, and folks shouldn't be too stubborn to use them.

To be useful in God's hand, a man must be properly adjusted with respect to all three: his position, his life and his warfare. He falls short of God's requirements if he underestimates the importance of any one of them, for each is a sphere in which God would express "the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved" (1:6).

Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart.

The body element of the flesh, full of sin and lust, naturally cannot but express itself in many sins, much to the grief of the Holy Spirit.

The language that reveals also obscures.

I loved the different voices all singing one song, the various tones and qualities, the passing lifts of feeling, rising up and going out forever. Old Man Profet, who was a different man on Sunday, used to draw out the notes at the ends of verses so he could listen to himself, and in fact it sounded pretty.

Music is a gift. We make it to give it away.

Music cuts people free." A pause. "It silences the thing that's trying to kill us.

It was often what Charlie didn't say that spoke the loudest.

We don't love because people love us back. We love because we can. Because we were made to.

That was the night I learned the value of an old hymn. How something so old and "out-of-date" could say words my heart needed to hear and didn't know how to say.