Love is not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision.

If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips

The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.

The voice you believe will determine the future you experience

Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.

My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.

When God demands more of you, it's because He sees more IN you

Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.

I dont believe God's called me to survive the world but to change it for His glory.

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest - without asking to be paid.

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

I know people went to laugh at my bed and to jeer at it. Still, at least they actually went to see it.