Gungor Us For Them Quotes & Sayings

Practice being fully present with something. Perhaps you may find something of God there. Go outside and look at the stars. Not for just a few seconds - lay a blanket in the yard, lie on your back and really look at the stars. Try to let your heart feel the incomprehensible size and grandeur of the universe. Take the time to really attend to a meal, a good book, a piece of music, or a sunrise. The point is to be fully present, to not be swept up into the distraction of a thousand voices, but to learn how to simply and fully attend to one. Then, when one enters back into the noisy world that we live in, even the million colors together are more vibrant because you have learned to better see color in its essence. To truly see is to find hope. — Michael Gungor

To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel. — Michael Gungor

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

Faith comes from listening to the right stories. — Michael Gungor

Wearing a condom is like eating an icecream cone with a sock on your tongue. — Mark Gungor

Here is a paradox for the creator: if you love your work, let it go.15 Because if you grip it too tightly, you will strangle it. If you hold it in open hands, you may actually find that the work has a life of its own. Creativity is more about listening and following than it is about forcing or manipulating. The truth for the creator is that you have a very limited control over anything in the world, even your own creation. You can work on it. You can help mold and shape its form. But there will come a point in the creative process where your creation is what it is. There comes a point where there is nothing left to do but to rest. To open your hands and let it go. You cannot control how others will receive it. They — Michael Gungor

To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels. — Michael Gungor

If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity. — Michael Gungor

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

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box. — Michael Gungor

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

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

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul. — Michael Gungor

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

Doubt purifies faith. Without doubt, belief calcifies into rigid fundamentalism. Without doubt, there are no questions; and without questions, there is no imagination. — Michael Gungor

Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs. — Mark Gungor

I do think that Christians will make music that oh should have some of the grandest visions of why we should create music and why we should seek to create beauty world. — Michael Gungor

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

There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards. — Michael Gungor

You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different. — Michael Gungor

If you want the benefit of having an ox, you're going to have to endure the poo that comes with it. The goal is to have a positive poo to ox ratio. — Mark Gungor

I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it? — Michael Gungor

Marriage problems are relationship problems, they are the result of how two people interact with each other. You may abandon a troubled marriage, but you will still bring the way you interact with others along with you. — Mark Gungor

You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes? — Mark Gungor

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long. — Michael Gungor

Entitlement is not a friend of art. Work is. Pain is. — Michael Gungor

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

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

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

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