God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.

To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

I'm in love with a lot of things. Some of those things love me back. And some of them don't - and one of them is Radiohead.

In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'