If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.

The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

It’s not what you believe that counts; it’s what you believe enough to do.

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?

We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.

What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

The meaning, purpose, and significance of our lives are found only by aligning our lives with God's purposes, in lives committed to following Jesus Christ.

Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything

God never asks us to give what we do not have . . . But he cannot use what we will not give.

Love always requires tangible expression. It needs hands and feet.

Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak.

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.

The good ones go, if you wait too long. So you should go, before you stay too long.

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

Death is Life's high meed.

I do think gun control is important. I am a supporter of gun control.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.

Being the foundation is what I live for, some people call it being in the pocket, some people call it a groove. I think it's the heartbeat. There's nothing that feels better than that.