Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not.

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.

When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

Don't accentuate our differences, but instead focus on our similarities.

Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories!

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.

Lee Iacocca, who said to Dolly Parton, Why do you need an airbag? Never got a dinner!

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.