How rude for the created to tell the Creator "I wasn't worth it. You didn't do a good job when you made me. I wasn't worth dying for." You don't get a choice! He's the one who gets to decide.

God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.

We don't help people by showing them our trophies. We help them by showing them our scars.

I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

Life is a series of recoveries.

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

The things you're crying about today, you might be laughing about in ten years ... and then again ... maybe not.

It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.

How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!

I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

organization is the religion of the single parent.

Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.