Quotes About Faith

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

I listen to gospel music.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God.

To sing is to pray twice.

Whatever you believe, you become.

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

If you don't live it, you don't believe it.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.