Quotes About Expression

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

When you sing, you pray twice.

Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be 'Sing your prayers.'

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

I've had enough, this is my prayer, that I'll die living just as free as my hair.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

Poetry to me is prayer.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

God knows that sometimes we lack words to express our feelings, heart-cry, thoughts. And so within the Bible he includes people's prayers as models to help our own.

Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.