Quotes about Expansiveness

One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.

Something that is characteristic of me is the breadth of my interests.

The mind is as big as the universe.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

Rilke wrote: "I am not saying that we should love death, but rather that we should love life so generously, without picking and choosing, that we automatically include it (life's other half) in our love. This is what actually happens in the great expansiveness of love, which cannot be stopped or constricted. It is only because we exclude it that death becomes more and more foreign to us and

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

The God we've been presenting people with is just too small and too stingy for a big-hearted person to trust or to love back.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.