I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test it out and make sure it holds and then you reach for the next one.

There's no end to amazing grace.

To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

My plan is to not be leading (worship) at any church until I really feel like I'm supposed to be somewhere else.

You’ll see, ” Mother assured her. “The fish will be just as friendly and the waves just as fresh in the new world the door makers find for us.

Benny pushed a slow breath through his teeth. “Is it so terrible to believe in something?

Let your days become a fragrant song where heaven and earth continually collide

How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision.

The smile on his face said, pure and simple, those honey cakes came with a price. And his price was answers.

Why weep when it takes less energy to laugh? Why frown when it takes less energy to smile? Why despair when it takes less energy to hope? Why fear when it takes less energy to love?

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.

An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

What worries me is that now, communication is virtual.

Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!

In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.