I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.

Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.

The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you'll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.

Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.

The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.