Michael Gungor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust
-- Michael Gungor

#Beautiful #Dust #Beautiful Things
Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of hope - it is homage to the value of human life, and it is vital to society. Art is a sacred expression of human creativity that shares the same ontological ground as all human work. Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.
-- Michael Gungor

#Art #Creativity #Expression
Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.
-- Michael Gungor

#Long #Trying #Being Human
The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.
-- Michael Gungor

#Art #War #Suffering
Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken
-- Michael Gungor

#Religious #Philosophical #Ideas
Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.
-- Michael Gungor

#Art #Creation #Intention
We areÂ all creators. Whether orÂ not weÂ create isÂ not upÂ to us. WeÂ are human, andÂ creating isÂ what weÂ do. Every interaction, movement, andÂ decision isÂ creativity atÂ work. WeÂ are allÂ artists. WeÂ all order creation around usÂ into theÂ world that weÂ want toÂ make.
-- Michael Gungor

#Creativity #Artist #Order
Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.
-- Michael Gungor

#Believe #Energy #Ability
If leading worship is just about bringing a group of people into a room so we can get goosebumps and sing songs together, there's not much value in that. But if leading worship is a means to an end, that we leave this place as a different kind of people, as part of a new humanity that God wants to create... then that matters.
-- Michael Gungor

#Song #Mean #People
There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.
-- Michael Gungor

#Eye #Reason #Cathedrals
Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. Itâ€™s also the root of a lot of bad art.
-- Michael Gungor

#Art #Roots #Evil
Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.
-- Michael Gungor

#Pain #Skins #Stories
This kind of passionate faith can be painful. Not caring is easy. Caring hurts. Caring costs you something. But without this sort of faith, you will never create to your fullest potential. Faith is a gift. Like I've said, felt belief is not necessarily something that you choose to have or not to have. But it is a gift that you can open yourself to receive.
-- Michael Gungor

#Hurt #Caring #Cost
Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.
-- Michael Gungor

#Art #Soul #Body
Faith comes from listening to the right stories.
-- Michael Gungor

#Listening #Stories
The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.
-- Michael Gungor

#Successful #People #Trying
The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.
-- Michael Gungor

#Art #May #Noise
I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?
-- Michael Gungor

#Stars #Flirting #Artist
Creativity is simply the human brain forming new connections between ideas, and we all are engaged in this process every day. The common idea that there are some people who are creative and some who are not is a myth. On some level, we are all artists. We are all creators.
-- Michael Gungor

#Creativity #Artist #Ideas
The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.
-- Michael Gungor

#Listening #Noise #Add

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