One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.

Sometimes God lets you be in a situation that only He can fix so that you can see that He is the One who fixes it. Rest. He's got it.

Peace doesn't mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you.

When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.

Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.

You cannot change the way you feel until you change the way you think because your thoughts will determine the way you feel.

Don't worry about locating your purpose. If you are seeking after God, your purpose will locate you.

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe.

God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time.

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we did live forever, then we would live forever, which is why I would not live forever.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.

If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.