I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son.

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.

Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.

I think we should all be servants. To be really great in God's eyes is to be least among each other and serve each other.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

If they aren't going to advance God's kingdom, I don't care to help them advance their kingdom.

A dream without a fight is a nightmare.

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

It was as if the universe pointed us in the direction of each other, because that was the natural order of things.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.