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

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.

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.

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

My underwear is my own person buisness.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.

I have always said that your work stays with you for a long time, and I try to get involved in projects where I truly believe if I had to do them again, I would the same way.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.

Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list.