God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us.

Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

Worm theology is too high for me.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

Get low; grace will meet you there.

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Leaders should be the chief repenters.

Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.

As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".