It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

I don't do lullabyes.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.