Top 44 Gungor Quotes
#1. Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.
Michael Gungor
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.
Michael Gungor
#6. Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.
Michael Gungor
#7. A healthy faith is one that has aligned in word, thought, and action.
Michael Gungor
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust
Michael Gungor
#12. 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
#13. Art is like fruit, and every tree is known by its fruit. Fruit reveals a lot about the tree from which it falls.
M. Gungor
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Entitlement is not a friend of art. Work is. Pain is.
Michael Gungor
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.
Michael Gungor
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes?
Mark Gungor
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#30. The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.
Michael Gungor
#31. To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels.
Michael Gungor
#32. Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much.
Michael Gungor
#33. We consume our art like moths. We gather, momentarily, around wherever the biggest, brightest light seems to be. So these days, the most successful art is the art that can elicit the quickest visceral reaction from the largest group of people.
Michael Gungor
#34. Wearing a condom is like eating an icecream cone with a sock on your tongue.
Mark Gungor
#35. You want him praising the Lord in the morning, you put a smile on his face tonight.
Mark Gungor
#36. There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.
Michael Gungor
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Mark Gungor
#41. I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes.
Michael Gungor
#42. Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken
Michael Gungor
#43. 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
#44. 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
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