Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

Prayer is man's greatest power!

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

There's so many gifts from the faith to appreciate and it strikes people differently, but the one-ness of the Church wherever you are, Raleigh, San Diego, Alabama. Every place we were was home because the Catholic Church is the same everywhere.

Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.

What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.

There is no way into Presence except through a love exchange.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.

What is love? Love to me is god.

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend

FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.

One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.