I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.

Friends are friends forever, if the Lord's the Lord of them.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet

Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting.

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

There's a beauty on the inside of you - and it shows on the outside too.

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

Her smile is the simplest miracle that she can create anytime.

You are my angel and my damnation

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

Practice random acts of . . . Grumpiness.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I know!