Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.

In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

Jealousy is the art of burning yourself inside out.

Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.

Let her remain where she is. A constellation away.

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents

Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.