Quotes on Expression

Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him- a faith that says, “I will remain true to God’s character whatever He may do.” The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is- “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract seems to me often to confuse the issue. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract . . . a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

Inside each person is a divine being that yearns to come into full expression

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have different jobs. Some of us are artists, some of us are business people, some of us are scientists. But in the real world that lies beyond all this, we all have the same job: to minister to human hearts.

Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.