Never underestimate the power of a single prayer.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

There are some things that are never meant to be said aloud.

Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

I've been treated there (Camden Yards in Baltimore) just like everywhere else: you got everyone booing for you. I take that as a compliment.

Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.

I just try to keep getting better every day, and that's all I can do.