Grace changes us and change is painful".

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

Truth has never been can never be contained in any one creed or system.

I thought that was fantastic. We were working on that the other night, actually.

Culture follows power.

Donald Trump is an "America first" guy. He said, "We protect everyone else's borders but our own."

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

Maybe the universe will get tired of me.

Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.

He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.

I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.