I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.

Don’t ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.

Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.

DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.

I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.

We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.

Their prayers impacted the outcome of the fight.

Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation.

Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?

Spending time being can be just as, if not more, fulfilling as spending time doing.

Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

We said we'd walk together baby come what may.That come the twilight should we lose our way.If as we're walkin a hand should slip free,I'll wait for you And should I fall behind,Wait for me.

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

I think if I'm 40, and I don't have any kids, and I'm not married, I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary, like Jesus is my baby.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.