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

There's no end to amazing grace.

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.

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.

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.

And then it dawned on me that the greatest love stories in the world never have happy endings.

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.