Gungor Us For Them Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. A healthy faith is one that has aligned in word, thought, and action.

Michael Gungor

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

Michael Gungor

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

Michael Gungor

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Michael Gungor

#14. I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes.

Michael Gungor

#15. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Mark Gungor

#16. Wearing a condom is like eating an icecream cone with a sock on your tongue.

Mark Gungor

#17. 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

#18. Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

Michael Gungor

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

Michael Gungor

#20. You want him praising the Lord in the morning, you put a smile on his face tonight.

Mark Gungor

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels.

Michael Gungor

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

Michael Gungor

#26. Faith comes from listening to the right stories.

Michael Gungor

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. You know what really fries my Puerto rican pancakes?

Mark Gungor