I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.

As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.

You never know until you give something your best and keep working at it. Follow your dreams no matter what

Make no mistake, Marin...a Dragon Guardian may not always be the one sitting upon the throne, but he or she is the protector of the entire realm.

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Let me burn out for God ... prayer is the great thing. Oh that I may be a man of prayer!

I'm definitely excited about roles where I get to wear cool costumes. I love Game of Thrones, and would love to do something like that. I'm totally a dork.

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.

Why can't the Arabs and Jews resolve their disagreements at the conference table like good Christians?