Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Sincere composers believe in God.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

Definitely being spiritual helps me create good music because music is ultimately the sound of the god.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.