Michael Gungor Quotes

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• Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

  Michael Gungor

  Long, Trying, Being Human

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• 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, Leisure Activities

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• 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

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• Faith comes from listening to the right stories.

  Michael Gungor

  Listening, Stories

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• 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

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• 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

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• You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust

  Michael Gungor

  Beautiful, Dust, Beautiful Things

  Song: You Make Beautiful Things, Album: Beautiful Things, 2010

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• 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

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• Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

  Michael Gungor

  Believe, Energy, Ability

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2013

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• Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.

  Michael Gungor

  Art, Roots, Evil

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• We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make.

  Michael Gungor

  Creativity, Artist, Order

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• Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

  Michael Gungor

  Religious, Philosophical, Ideas

  Twitter post from Jul 4, 2013

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• Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

  Michael Gungor

  Art, Creation, Intention

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• 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, Add, Noise

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• I don't want everybody to try to sound like something; I think that God has given us each unique talents and passions. The things that come out of me will be different than my neighbor, because I have a totally different set of relationships, totally different set influences and personality traits.

  Michael Gungor

  Passion, Unique, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• 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

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• When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.

  Michael Gungor

  Thinking, Political, Becoming

  Source: sojo.net

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• To me, God is the basic Reality of the universe. God is what is. That's how Moses wrote that God introduced Himself, isn't it? "I am that I am." God is. Whatever is, that is God.

  Michael Gungor

  Reality, Moses, Universe

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• I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.

  Michael Gungor

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I think everybody is different. We are trying to be ourselves, and other people are trying to be themselves. We all share commonalities with each other, but all of us have different thumbprints. We all have our own unique things.

  Michael Gungor

  Unique, Thinking, People

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• One of the things I love about art, is that it can say number of things to people. I broad hope is that it would just open people's hearts and that they would experience love, and that that would experience God.

  Michael Gungor

  Art, Numbers, People

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.

  Michael Gungor

  Eye, Reason, Used

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• The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

  Michael Gungor

  Art, May, Noise

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• 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

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• Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

  Michael Gungor

  Art, Soul, Body

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