Top 40 Michael Gungor Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.”

— Michael Gungor

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2. “You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust.”

— Michael Gungor

3. “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

4. “Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.”

— Michael Gungor

5. “There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.”

— Michael Gungor

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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

9. “The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.”

— Michael Gungor

10. “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

11. “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

12. “Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that’s not the whole story.”

— Michael Gungor

13. “Art is the body’s pronunciation of the soul.”

— Michael Gungor

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “I’ve found that limitations can be an artist’s best friend sometimes.”

— Michael Gungor

18. “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

19. “Faith comes from listening to the right stories.”

— Michael Gungor

20. “To me genres were always an imaginary things, they’re just marketing channels.”

— Michael Gungor

21. “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

22. “Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.”

— 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. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

28. “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

29. “Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn’t lead one towards love ought to be forsaken.”

— Michael Gungor

30. “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

31. “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

32. “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

33. “Not every artist has to make a living making art. Millions of people who play guitar would do well to keep their day jobs. Plenty of people make incredible art “on the side”. William Faulkner wasn’t any less of an artist for writing As I lay Dying on the back of a wheelbarrow during breaks in his job shoveling coal for the electric company.”

— Michael Gungor

34. “Fundamentalism is rooted in arrogance. It thrives in fear and control and darkness.”

— Michael Gungor

35. “A healthy faith is one that has aligned in word, thought, and action.”

— Michael Gungor

36. “Creator, if what you are creating has grown insipid and dull, perhaps you ought to take a step back for a moment. Before you go back to your instrument, your pen, your brush-take a breath and remember how to listen again.”

— Michael Gungor

37. “Will you be courageous enough to create the art that you truly desire to create rather than settling for the art that you feel is necessary? It.”

— Michael Gungor

38. “As an artist, the voices you listen to ought to align with that inner Voice that knows who you are. When that foundation is set, then the rest of the voices can begin to build and work together, becoming the voice of a community, adding synergy and depth to your art that you couldn’t possibly manufacture on your own.”

— Michael Gungor

39. “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

40. “She didn’t even insult me. She just didn’t compliment me. This is how fragile the ego can be in connection with our creative expressions. The critic’s voice is so powerful because it resonates with the voices of our deepest fears, those voices speaking from the inside of us, telling us that we are not good enough. The critics confirm our repressed and terrified suspicions that we don’t measure up, that we are unsafe and unlovable.”

— Michael Gungor

41. “Our deepest beliefs about the universe filter their way up through the soil into the tiny aesthetic decisions that the artist makes. How we make our records. Which color feels right. Rhyme schemes and word choices. These kinds of decisions are rarely made out of purely analytical comparison. They come from the guts. From faith.”

— Michael Gungor

42. “Entitlement is not a friend of art. Work is. Pain is.”

— Michael Gungor

43. “All human creativity depends on something deeper than itself.”

— Michael Gungor

44. “To truly see is to find hope.”

— Michael Gungor