Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!

In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

The heart of God loves a persevering worshipper who, though overwhelmed by many troubles, is overwhelmed even more by the beauty of God.

We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.

Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.

As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.

Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy.

God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching.

Worship songs can't just be rooted in culture - they won't be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture.

The revelation of God is the fuel for the fire of our worship

Information may inform the mind, but revelation sets a heart on fire.

I want you to live, and go on living, and let everyone else live, too.

If you are blaming the oppressed rather than the oppressor you know that something is wrong.

There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.

Never ruin an appology with an excuse.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.

I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.