"We have a God-given ability to enjoy and express emotion. Our passions can be excited by beauty; our emotions are moved by music, literature, and art; we can experience the depth of tragic sorrow and the height of ecstatic joy. He's created us with the ability to contemplate, comprehend (in a limited way), and enjoy Him, so that our hearts would 'gush over' with beautiful thoughts about our great King (Ps. 45:1). He's given us the ability to create, perform, and enjoy music and poetry in our worship, just so our hearts would be inclined more toward Him. Our ability to rejoice in God reflects His joy and exultation in Himself."
- Elyse Fitzpatrick
(Idols of the Heart, pg. 193)
