A parent asked me today, "How do you get your children to pray in church?" My response? "Pray at home."

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you... but who desperately needs Christ in you.

God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no rom

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model.

I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper. It's just been such a blessing for me my whole life to get my feelings out there in a positive way.

In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.